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  • TAEKO TERAMAE Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome. On the 6th of August 1945 she was in her third year of  Shintoku girls' high school and was engaged in a in the telephone exchange service as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office. She was at work when the bomb fell and she was badly injured by pieces of broken glass that cut her face, resulting in loosing eyesight on her right eye. She survived by swimming to cross a river to a safer area, with the help of one of her teachers who later died. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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  • TAEKO TERAMAE Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome. On the 6th of August 1945 she was in her third year of  Shintoku girls' high school and was engaged in a in the telephone exchange service as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office. She was at work when the bomb fell and she was badly injured by pieces of broken glass that cut her face, resulting in loosing eyesight on her right eye. She survived by swimming to cross a river to a safer area, with the help of one of her teachers who later died. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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  • MICHIKO YAMAOKA Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor, in front of her mother's picture inside her appartment. She was 15 years old and a third-year student at a girl's middle school. She was working as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office and at the time of the bombing she was on her way to work. She was badly injured and would have died under a wall that collapsed on her, if her mother wouldn't have come to her rescue. Her face was disfigured by the injuries and by keloids that grew on it. Her condition made her want to die but her mother's support helped her regain the will for life. Later she went to the US and had 27 surgical operations on her keloids. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and she has been even traveling overseas to tell her story.
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  • AKIHIRO TAKAHASHI.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.  Former director of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Photo: inside the museum, in front of the picture and the remains of his nail that started growing abnormaly after the bombing.
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  • TAEKO TERAMAE Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome. On the 6th of August 1945 she was in her third year of  Shintoku girls' high school and was engaged in a in the telephone exchange service as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office. She was at work when the bomb fell and she was badly injured by pieces of broken glass that cut her face, resulting in loosing eyesight on her right eye. She survived by swimming to cross a river to a safer area, with the help of one of her teachers who later died. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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  • SEIJI TANI.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Student of IDEC, Hiroshima University.
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  • MICHIKO YAMAOKA Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor in her flat. She was 15 years old and a third-year student at a girl's middle school. She was working as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office and at the time of the bombing she was on her way to work. She was badly injured and would have died under a wall that collapsed on her, if her mother wouldn't have come to her rescue. Her face was disfigured by the injuries and by keloids that grew on it. Her condition made her want to die but her mother's support helped her regain the will for life. Later she went to the US and had 27 surgical operations on her keloids. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and she has been even traveling overseas to tell her story.
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  • SEIJI TANI.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Student of IDEC, Hiroshima University. Standing in front of where his house used to be before the bombing. He found it because he remebered it was behing a temple. Now a chement building is at it's place and a new temple in place of the old one.
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  • Ms Park Nam Joo. Korean Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor holding a Korean flower. At the Peace Memorial Park, In front of the monument for Korean victims of the A-Bomb on Hiroshima.
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY: the Japanese magazine that for the first time in Japan published photos from Hiroshima - THE ASAHI PICTURE NEWS (6 August 1952)
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY: the Japanese magazine that for the first time in Japan published photos from Hiroshima - THE ASAHI PICTURE NEWS (6 August 1952)
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  • AKIHIRO TAKAHASHI.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.  Former director of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Photo: inside the museum, in front of the uniform that a close friend who died in the bombing was wearing.
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  • ISAO WADA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor - Trained to be a sea kamikaze. Photo: at the new port of Hiroshima
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Clothes and pictures of people burned by the A-bomb in Hiroshima.
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  • Ms HIROKO KATAKEYAMA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Elementary school student who was four kilometers from the epicenter.  She lost many of her relatives in the bombing, including her cousin who was the same age.  We felt worn our and usually retreated to the barn, away from the quarreling adults.  One day my cousin confessed that his hair had started falling out.  I still vividly remember his blank face, frightened at this sign of death.  She still cries when she tells this story and is one of the few survivors who confesses to hating America. When she was invited by the UN to speak in New York two years ago, she almost didn't go. "I couldn't bear the thought of going to the US"..COPY: Old map showing the epicenter of the bombing and the range of the affected areas in Hiroshima.
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  • Ms HIROKO KATAKEYAMA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor, siting in front of an old map showing the epicenter and the range or the A-bomb in the city of Hiroshima. Elementary school student who was four kilometers from the epicenter.  She lost many of her relatives in the bombing, including her cousin who was the same age.  We felt worn our and usually retreated to the barn, away from the quarreling adults.  One day my cousin confessed that his hair had started falling out.  I still vividly remember his blank face, frightened at this sign of death.  She still cries when she tells this story and is one of the few survivors who confesses to hating America. When she was invited by the UN to speak in New York two years ago, she almost didn't go. "I couldn't bear the thought of going to the US".
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  • Ms Park Nam Joo. Korean Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. At the Peace Memorial Park, In front of the monument for Korean victims of the A-Bomb on Hiroshima.
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY: the Japanese magazine that for the first time in Japan published photos from Hiroshima - THE ASAHI PICTURE NEWS (6 August 1952)
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY: the Japanese magazine that for the first time in Japan published photos from Hiroshima - THE ASAHI PICTURE NEWS (6 August 1952)
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  • Ms Park Nam Joo. Korean Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. At the Peace Memorial Park, In front of the monument for Korean victims of the A-Bomb on Hiroshima.
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  • ISAO WADA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor - Trained to be a sea kamikaze. Photo: at the old port of Hiroshima and at the spot where he arrived on August 6 1946.
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  • Ms HIROKO KATAKEYAMA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Elementary school student who was four kilometers from the epicenter.  She lost many of her relatives in the bombing, including her cousin who was the same age.  We felt worn our and usually retreated to the barn, away from the quarreling adults.  One day my cousin confessed that his hair had started falling out.  I still vividly remember his blank face, frightened at this sign of death.  She still cries when she tells this story and is one of the few survivors who confesses to hating America. When she was invited by the UN to speak in New York two years ago, she almost didn't go. "I couldn't bear the thought of going to the US". COPY: Old photo with her mother and her little brother who was kiled from the A-bombing of Hiroshima.
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY: the Japanese magazine that for the first time in Japan published photos from Hiroshima - THE ASAHI PICTURE NEWS (6 August 1952)
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY: the Japanese magazine that for the first time in Japan published photos from Hiroshima - THE ASAHI PICTURE NEWS (6 August 1952)
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. School-children in front of pictures of people burned by the A-bomb in Hiroshima.
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  • JUNKO KAYASHIGE.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.  Painter. Her uncle with his family.
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY of an old family photo. Dr Maruya is the boy with hte glasses and above him, the picture of the brother who was at the war as a solder.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Cyclist crossing one of the bridges.
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  • JUNKO KAYASHIGE.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.  Painter. COPY: Old photo with all the family together. Picture shot before one brother went to war as a solder. Junko is the little girl at the bottom left.
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  • Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor and General director of Horoshima Council of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations. Photographed in front of remains of the old Red Cross Hospital.
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  • KAZUSHI KANEKO.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor and General director of Horoshima Council of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations. Photographed in front of remains of the old Red Cross Hospital.
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  • ISAO WADA.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor - Trained to be a kamikaze. COPY: Picture the boat he was traning with.
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  • KEIJI NAKAZAWA.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Author of the Manga GEN.
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  • YAMASAKI. 2nd generation hibakusha - son of a Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY of an old photo Dr. Maruya is the second from the right at the back. In this photo, together with his fellow highschool students at the school dormitory.
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet.
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  • Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor - Trained to be a sea kamikaze. Photo: in front of a monument for the Japanese navy of the IIWW, in an abandoned memorial park. nIt is near the spot at the old port, where he arrived with his boat at the 6th August 1946, after the bombing.
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  • ISAO WADA.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor - Trained to be a kamikaze. Photo: in front of a monument for the Japanese navy of the IIWW, in an abandoned memorial park. nIt is near the spot at the old port, where he arrived with his boat at the 6th August 1946, after the bombing.
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  • Hiroshima City. Street artist
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Clothes as they were distroied by the A-bombing.
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  • HITOSHI TAKAYAMA Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, inside the Peace Memorial Museum. He was 15 years old and training to work at the Nippon Express Company automobile garage in Minami-machi when the bomb fell. He immediately ran inside a building which protected him from immediate injury, but 16 years later he developed cancer on his hip and back.  He remembers the scenes of horror and the suffering of dying people he saw around him.  He lifts his shirt to show where much of the muscle from his back was removed in the cancer operation. I don't mind showing people my injuries if it teaches them about what happened.
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  • KAZUSHI KANEKO.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor and General director of Horoshima Council of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations. Photographed in front of remains of the old Red Cross Hospital.
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  • KAZUSHI KANEKO.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor and General director of Horoshima Council of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations. Photographed in front of remains of the old Red Cross Hospital.
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  • ISAO WADA.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor - Trained to be a kamikaze. COPY: Picture in a book. He is a solder at the back row, third or forth from the right.
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  • YAMASAKI. 2nd generation hibakusha - son of a Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet.
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  • YAMASAKI. 2nd generation hibakusha - son of a Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.
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  • photo of HITOSHI TAKAYAMA Hiroshima A-bomb survivor
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  • Hiroshima City. Waiting to cross the street
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  • MINORU HATAGUCHI: Director of the Hiroshima Peace Museum who lost his father in the bombing, here standing in front of the picture of the clock that stopped on that time. His mother was two months pregnant when the bomb fell.  She went looking for her husband who worked at a railway station.  She only found his watch, which Hataguchi keeps in a glass case in his office to remind him of what happened.
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  • MINORU HATAGUCHI: Director of the Hiroshima Peace Museum lost his father in the bombing, standing in front of the picture of the clock that stoped on the time of the bombing.  His mother was two months pregnant when the bomb fell.  She went looking for her husband who worked at a railway station.  She found his watch, which Hataguchi keeps in a glass case in his office to remind him of what happened.
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  • HITOSHI TAKAYAMA Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, inside the Peace Memorial Museum. He was 15 years old and training to work at the Nippon Express Company automobile garage in Minami-machi when the bomb fell. He immediately ran inside a building which protected him from immediate injury, but 16 years later he developed cancer on his hip and back.  He remembers the scenes of horror and the suffering of dying people he saw around him.  He lifts his shirt to show where much of the muscle from his back was removed in the cancer operation. I don't mind showing people my injuries if it teaches them about what happened.
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  • MICHIKO YAMAOKA: Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor, standing in front of a reproduction of a bombed building, inside the Peace Memorial Museum.  Yamaoka was 15 and also worked at the telephone exchange when the bomb fell as she was on her way to work.  She was badly injured and would have died under a wall that collapsed on her, if her mother had not come to her rescue. Her face was so badly disfigured by the injuries she wanted to die but her mother helped her regain the will to live. Later she went to the US and had 27 operations on her damaged face and body. " I can't believe the world is still trying to develop nuclear weapons", she says.  "I wish they could all see me".
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  • JUNKO KAYASHIGE.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.  Painter.
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  • JUNKO KAYASHIGE.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.  Painter.
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  • ISAO WADA (left).  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor - Trained to be a kamikaze. With a friend kamikaze.
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  • KEIJI NAKAZAWA.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Author of the Manga GEN.
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet. COPY of an old photo Dr. Maruya is the second from the right. In this photo, together with his fellow highschool students.
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  • YOSHIMICHI ISHIMARU. Artist. 2nd generation hibakusha - son of a Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.
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  • Hiroshima City. Waiting to cross the street
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  • Hiroshima City. Hondori station.
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  • HITOSHI TAKAYAMA Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, in front of the tomb for unknown victims at the Peace Memorial Park. He was 15 years old and training to work at the Nippon Express Company automobile garage in Minami-machi when the bomb fell. He immediately ran inside a building which protected him from immediate injury, but 16 years later he developed cancer on his hip and back.  He remembers the scenes of horror and the suffering of dying people he saw around him.  He lifts his shirt to show where much of the muscle from his back was removed in the cancer operation. I don't mind showing people my injuries if it teaches them about what happened.
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  • JUNKO KAYASHIGE.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.  Painter. In her living-room.
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  • KAZUSHI KANEKO.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor and General director of Horoshima Council of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations. Photographed in front of remains of the old Red Cross Hospital.
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  • KAZUSHI KANEKO.  Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor and General director of Horoshima Council of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations. Photographed in front of remains of the old Red Cross Hospital.
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  • Dr HIROSHI MARUYA. Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor. Honorary doctor of Kyoritsu Hospital and poet.
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  • YOSHIMICHI ISHIMARU. Artist. 2nd generation hibakusha - son of a Hiroshima A-Bomb survivor.
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  • Hiroshima City. Cosplayer (costume-player) crossind the street on the North side of the Peace Memorial Park.
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  • KAZUKO KOJIMA: (59) was born two days after the bomb fell, in a basement 1.6km from the epicenter.  She now runs a bar in Hiroshima and has rarely spoken in public about what happened. She became famous thanks to a poem about the birth of new life by Sadako Kurihara who heard about the baby born in pitch darkness in a basement filled with corpses and dying bomb victims. . The poem has been published in English as "We Shall Bring Forth New Life".  Kojima-san says since Kurihara's death earlier this year she feels an obligation to speak out.  "It is my duty now".
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  • KAZUKO KOJIMA: (59) was born two days after the bomb fell, in a basement 1.6km from the epicenter.  She now runs a bar in Hiroshima and has rarely spoken in public about what happened. She became famous thanks to a poem about the birth of new life by Sadako Kurihara who heard about the baby born in pitch darkness in a basement filled with corpses and dying bomb victims. . The poem has been published in English as "We Shall Bring Forth New Life".  Kojima-san says since Kurihara's death earlier this year she feels an obligation to speak out.  "It is my duty now".
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  • KAZUKO KOJIMA: (59) was born two days after the bomb fell, in a basement 1.6km from the epicenter.  She now runs a bar in Hiroshima and has rarely spoken in public about what happened. She became famous thanks to a poem about the birth of new life by Sadako Kurihara who heard about the baby born in pitch darkness in a basement filled with corpses and dying bomb victims. . The poem has been published in English as "We Shall Bring Forth New Life".  Kojima-san says since Kurihara's death earlier this year she feels an obligation to speak out.  "It is my duty now".
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and Hiroshima people go to the Peace Memorial Park to relax, and the A-Bomb Dome is just an other monument.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and Hiroshima people go to the Peace Memorial Park to relax, and the A-Bomb Dome is just an other monument.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and Hiroshima people go to the Peace Memorial Park to relax, and the A-Bomb Dome is just an other monument.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and Hiroshima people go to the Peace Memorial Park to relax, and the A-Bomb Dome is just an other monument.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and Hiroshima people go to the Peace Memorial Park to relax, and the A-Bomb Dome is just an other monument.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Distroied religious objects and Buhdas in a display, in front of a picture of the bombed Hiroshima.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and Hiroshima people go to the Peace Memorial Park to relax, and the A-Bomb Dome is just an other monument.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively. Children of Hiroshima go to the Peace Memorial Park to play and the A-Bomb Dome is just an other monument.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Schoolgirls drowing the Reproduction of scenes of Hiroshima after the bombing.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and away from the Peace Memorial Park, it is difficult to believe that 60 years ago it was completely distroyed.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Reproduction of the city as it was after the bombing. The red ball stands for the point where the bomb exploded above the ground.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and away from the Peace Memorial Park, it is difficult to believe that 60 years ago it was completely distroyed.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and away from the Peace Memorial Park, it is difficult to believe that 60 years ago it was completely distroyed.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and away from the Peace Memorial Park, it is difficult to believe that 60 years ago it was completely distroyed.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Japanese visitor photographing the paper cranes, left as peace offerings on the Memorial tower monument to the mobilized students who died in the bombing.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Paper cranes, left as peace offerings on the Memorial tower monument to the mobilized students who died in the bombing. The paper cranes became a symbol of riece because of Sadako Sasaki. She died in 1955 at the age of 12 by lefkemia. When she was diagnosed with the disease she thought that by following the Japanese tradition of folding a 1000 paper cranes to be cured, she could win over her illness. 8 months later when she died, she had already folded 1300 paper cranes, on any kind of paper she could find.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and away from the Peace Memorial Park, it is difficult to believe that 60 years ago it was completely distroyed.
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  • Schoolboys sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Children's peace monument
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Kenotaph for the A-Bomb victims.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Kenotaph for the A-Bomb victims.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.Children in front of the Paper Cranes, folded by Sadako Sasaki. She died in 1955 at the age of 12 by lefkemia. When she was diagnosed with the disease she thought that by following the Japanese tradition of folding a 1000 paper cranes to be cured, she could win over her illness. 8 months later when she died, she had already folded 1300 paper cranes, on any kind of paper she could find.
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  • Hiroshima City. The city today is very lively and away from the Peace Memorial Park, it is difficult to believe that 60 years ago it was completely distroyed.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Schoolchildren watching the reproduction of the city as it was after the bombing.
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  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Reproduction of the area where now is the Peace memorial Park, as it was after the bombing.
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  • SUNAO TSUBOI: A-Bomb survivor, standing in front of one of the few pictures taken in the first days of the bombing and in which he can recognize himself between the wounded.  Tsuboi was a 20-year-old university student when he was blown 10 meters into the air by the blast from the bomb and burnt from head to toe. He describes the subsequent scene wandering around the city with eyeballs dangling out of their sockets and skin hanging from bones as a living hell. He wandered for a week and fell into a coma.  When he came to the war was over but he refused to believe it.  "I thought it was a trick" He has since suffered three bouts of cancer and tried to commit suicide with his girlfriend when her parents refused to give them permission to marry.  "We woke up and cried together we were so happy to be alive".
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  • SUNAO TSUBOI: A-Bomb survivor, standing in front of one of the few pictures taken in the first days of the bombing and in which he can recognize himself between the wounded.  Tsuboi was a 20-year-old university student when he was blown 10 meters into the air by the blast from the bomb and burnt from head to toe. He describes the subsequent scene wandering around the city with eyeballs dangling out of their sockets and skin hanging from bones as a living hell. He wandered for a week and fell into a coma.  When he came to the war was over but he refused to believe it.  "I thought it was a trick" He has since suffered three bouts of cancer and tried to commit suicide with his girlfriend when her parents refused to give them permission to marry.  "We woke up and cried together we were so happy to be alive".
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  • SUZUKO NUMATA: Pictured in hospital, where she is being treated for osteoporosis.  Numata was 20 and engaged to be married when the bomb fell and shattered her left leg.  Three days later it began to fester and was amputated below the knee, without anesthetic. She later learned that her fiancé had been killed.  She never married and spent her life teaching and unable to talk about what happened until she retired twenty years ago.  "We used to chant during the war: Be united in one mind like a fireball, 100 million people. Then when the bomb fell the trucks came around and ignored women and children, and just helped the healthy men.  That's when I first understood what war was."
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  • HIROKO HATAKEYAMA: Elementary school student who was four kilometers from the epicenter.  She lost many of her relatives in the bombing, including her cousin who was the same age.  We felt worn our and usually retreated to the barn, away from the quarreling adults.  One day my cousin confessed that his hair had started falling out.  I still vividly remember his blank face, frightened at this sign of death.  She still cries when she tells this story and is one of the few survivors who confesses to hating America. When she was invited by the UN to speak in New York two years ago, she almost didn't go. "I couldn't bear the thought of going to the US".
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