The Nagasaki city office has received some 1,500 instances of critical feedback in English regarding its decision not to invite the Israeli ambassador to Japan to a recent ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, its mayor said Tuesday.

Of the total, some 1,400 were emails with the same subject line and including the same text protesting the city’s decision, Mayor Shiro Suzuki told a press conference.

The city also got more than 2,000 phone calls, emails and online messages in Japanese, mostly in support of the city’s decision, the mayor added.