Hiroshima University will bestow honorary doctorates on three of its former students from Southeast Asia who were forced to quit their studies after the city's 1945 atomic bombing.
Pengiran Yusuf, 89, a former prime minister of Brunei, Hasan Rahaya, 90, a former member of the Indonesian Parliament, and Abdul Razak, 87, who made major contributions to teaching Japanese in Malaysia, were among a group of students chosen from Japanese-occupied Southeast Asia to study in Japan between 1943 and 1944.
The three "made efforts to rescue Hiroshima residents even though they themselves were exposed to the bombing and contributed to the promotion of peace by relating their experience after returning to their home countries," a university official said Wednesday.