Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged Saturday to enable people who were exposed to the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki outside of the state-designated area to receive medical aid equivalent to that offered to state-recognized atomic bomb survivors.The announcement came after a Japanese district court earlier this month ordered the Nagasaki prefectural and city governments to certify 15 of 44 plaintiffs as atomic bomb survivors, known as hibakusha, given that they were exposed to radioactive "black rain."After meeting with the Nagasaki governor and mayor at his official residence, Kishida sa…READ FULL ARTICLE
