Japan has commemorated the victims of the atomic bombing in the city of Nagasaki 69 years ago.

Some 150,000 people died in the attack and from the subsequent radiation sickness.

Visitors observed a moment of silence at 11:02 in the morning, the exact time the bomb was dropped.

After their surrender to Allied forces, Japan adopted a pacifist constitution.

Recently though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted the country's ban on aiding other countries under attack- the most significant change to country's security policies in decades.