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Monday, 6 August, 2001, 11:57 GMT 12:57 UK
In pictures: Hiroshima remembers A-bomb
Japan has marked the 56th anniversary of the day a US aircraft dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on the unsuspecting city of Hiroshima.
![]() The bomb flattened everything within two kilometres of its epicentre
![]() Every year people mark the anniversary with prayers at the cenotaph
![]() Children offer folded paper cranes as a mark of peace
![]() Peace activists waved lights at the Atomic Bomb Dome
![]() Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited A-bomb survivors
![]() In Tokyo, protesters used the occasion to condemn US missile defence
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