Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Monday the government has decided not to appeal a recent high court ruling that recognized 84 people in Hiroshima Prefecture as eligible for state health care benefits for being exposed to radioactive "black rain" after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing.The government made the decision "given many of them are elderly and some have illnesses," Suga told reporters, adding that the government would seek to issue the plaintiffs certificates classifying them as hibakusha, or survivors of the atomic bombing, immediately, while considering ways to help other people in…READ FULL ARTICLE
