内容摘要：“There are many, many houses that flood and fill up with water,” said 29-year-old Gonzalez. “A strong river of water passes through here, and the mud houses collapse.”

“There are many, many houses that flood and fill up with water,” said 29-year-old Gonzalez. “A strong river of water passes through here, and the mud houses collapse.”

Remains of the former Urakami Cathedral wall,” a preserved section of the original cathedral destroyed in the atomic bombing on August 9, 1945, are seen in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)Remains of the former Urakami Cathedral wall,” a preserved section of the original cathedral destroyed in the atomic bombing on August 9, 1945, are seen in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

The Urakami Cathedral is seen in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Nov. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)The Urakami Cathedral is seen in Nagasaki, southern Japan, Nov. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)Fumi Takeshita, 83, was just a child, but can still recall her experience.

“I saw an extremely strong light coming in from the window. It was white, or shall I say yellow? So strong that I couldn’t keep my eyes open,” she said.“It was the day after the bomb dropped. (My father) walked through the hypocenter, the Urakami area, and heard many people calling for help. There were heaps of bodies, too. Buildings were crashed to the ground and there was nothing left, apparently. I heard that from my grandmother. She said, “Fumi-chan, remember the light you saw the other day? Because of that there is nothing left in Urakami, and many people died.’”

She now collects items related to the bombing, many of which she has dug from the ground with bare hands. Takeshita believes it’s important to preserve the physical evidence of the Nagasaki bombing, known as “Hibaku remains.”

“Nagasaki hardly has any remains left. I have been raising my voice to be heard in order to protect them, but most of them have been taken down,” she said.The label’s lawyers said in letters included as exhibits in the lawsuit that they have encouraged mediation and want to reach a “mutually acceptable resolution.”

But the UMG lawyers said in the letters that James and Denton were not even personally parties in the 1986 agreement that covered their initial albums, and there is no evidence that they granted the label copyright that they can now reclaim.UMG maintains that the recordings were “works made for hire,” which would not allow for the reclaiming of rights. Salt-N-Pepa’s lawsuit says the women’s agreements with the label make it very clear that they were not.

The Queens, New York, duo of James and Denton became Salt-N-Pepa in 1985. They were later joined by, who was not part of the early agreements under dispute and is not involved in the lawsuit.