As Japan marks 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the country's postwar identity is shifting.

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. Many aging survivors express frustration over growing global support for nuclear weapons as deterrence.

When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago in Hiroshima, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima.