HIROSHIMA - A flame-lighting ceremony for the torch relay of the upcoming Asian Games was staged in Hiroshima on Thursday, following a similar event in Tokyo earlier this week.
Hiroshima Mayor Mazumi Matsui drew the ceremonial flame from the Flame of Peace at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, which commemorates the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.
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