NAGASAKI —

The Nagasaki prefectural government has decided to retract its appeal over a district court ruling which reversed the local government’s decision not to provide a South Korean atomic-bomb survivor with a health passbook and associated benefits just because she had not been able to visit Japan for the application, Gov. Genjiro Kaneko said Monday.
   
Kaneko said at a press conference that the decision on Chong Nam Su, the South Korean woman who won the lawsuit last November at the Nagasaki District Court, was made partly because a legal amendment has enabled atomic-bomb survivors living abroad to apply for the health passbook without visiting Japan. Chong died May 25 at a hospital in South Korea at the age of 89 after receiving her health passbook in February. ‘‘I would like to pray for her soul and to send our sincere condolences to her family,’’ Kaneko said. Chong, who came to Japan in 1939, was in Hiroshima when it was devastated by the atomic bomb dropped on the city by the United States on Aug. 6, 1945, and returned to South Korea the same year. She applied for the passbook by mail through her supporters in Nagasaki in 2006.

Kyodo

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  smithinjapan at 12:34 AM JST - 2nd July

  Sounds typical. Forgive my lack of surprise.

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