Hiroshima attack flame offered for Pearl Harbour memorial


The 'flame of peace' is said to have been taken from the smouldering ruins of Hiroshima after the world's first nuclear attack. - AFP

TOKYO (AFP): The family of a famed Hiroshima atomic bomb victim is fundraising to take a flame burning since the wartime attack to Pearl Harbour to light a peace monument, they said Friday (Dec 3).

The "flame of peace" is said to have been taken from the smouldering ruins of Hiroshima after the world's first nuclear attack. It was kept alive first in a private home before being moved to a peace tower in Japan's Fukuoka in 1968.

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