Japanese authorities have seized a Chinese fishing vessel and arrested its captain for allegedly refusing to comply with an order to stop while operating inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off Nagasaki Prefecture, the Fisheries Agency said early Friday.

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Thousands gathered in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark 80 years since the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb, as its mayor warned that current global tensions risk pushing the world toward nuclear war.

The Japanese government will not participate in the UN meeting on prohibition of nuclear weapons as an observer.

Shigemi Fukahori, a 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing survivor who dedicated his life to promoting peace and opposing nuclear weapons, has passed away at 93.

Japanese atomic bomb survivor organization Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of the organization’s efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.