CRI听力:Nagasaki Marks 68th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing

The mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki has taken time to criticize the Japanese government's refusal to sign a non-proliferation treaty earlier this year.

Tomihisa Taue made has blasted the government during the ceremony to mark the atomic bombing of the city 68 years ago.

"If we cannot accept the wording that usage of nuclear weapon will never be permitted under any circumstance, it means the Japanese government is showing that nuclear weapons can be used depending on the circumstance. This is against the spirit that we, as the only country to have suffered a nuclear attack, will never allow any one else in this world to experience what we had to go through."

As part of this Friday's ceremony, a bell tolled at 11:02a.m. local time to mark the exact time the bomb exploded over the city, killing around 150-thousand people.