This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A group of supporters for plaintiffs celebrate, holding a banner which reads 'Overall victory' outside the Hiroshima district court in Hiroshima, western Japan, on July 29, 2020. A court has recognized people exposed to radioactive 'black rain' that fell after the U.S.
The U.S. dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing 140,000 people and almost destroying the entire city. The plaintiffs were in areas northwest of the ground zero where radioactive black rain fell hours after the bomb was dropped. They filed the lawsuit after Hiroshima city and prefectural officials rejected their request to expand the zone to cover their areas where black rain also fell.
One of the plaintiffs, Minoru Honke, who was exposed to black rain at age 4, said more than a dozen people died during the trial. “I want to tell them that we won,” he said.