Seventeen heat records were broken in Japan on Monday, the weather agency said, after the country sweltered through its hottest ever June and July.
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In the 80 years since the World War II attacks, stories of destruction and mutation have been fused with fears around natural disasters
Narratives reflecting Japan's complex relationship with nuclear technologies abound, but the most famous example is Godzilla, a prehistoric cr…
The US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 left around 140,000 people dead
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