TOKYO: A small group of Japanese right-wingers on Sunday staged a protest against a South Korean daily which said the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were “divine punishment.”

Some 40 demonstrators, carrying Japanese “Rising Sun” flags, gathered outside a building where the Tokyo bureau of the Joongang Ilbo daily is located.

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