Japan defense chief says U.S. dropping of atomic bomb inevitable

Sunday, July 1, 2007

TOKYO -- Japan's defense minister said Saturday that the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war, drawing criticism from atomic bomb survivors.

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