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Hiroshima Generations: The memory passed on

Ari Beser and Keiko Ogura

His grandfather helped bomb Hiroshima. Today, he’s friends with a nuclear bomb survivor.

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For decades, Keiko Ogura didn’t talk about the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

Hiroshima survivor Noriho Azuma (wearing a hat) in front of the A-bomb dome in June of 2015.

Hiroshima survivors want more than a US apology

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Radiation hotspot in Kashiwa, February 2012

They know: Hiroshima survivors help those in Fukushima overcome fear, discrimination

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Aya Kano on board a ferry heading for the island of Ninoshima.

How this granddaughter of A-bomb survivors learned to embrace her family history

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Hiroshima Peace Memorial.

Respect: A young tour guide, a Hiroshima survivor and a baton passed

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A-bomb survivors: My mom and her mother Jettie on board the ship Oranje, which had been a hospital vessel during the war. They were on the boat’s first post-war civilian transport, making the crossing here from Java to Melbourne, Australia in November 194

The Bomb saved my mom

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When the first of the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, Marco Werman’s mother was in a WWII prison camp in Indonesia. And, were it not for the bombs, his mom might not have survived the camp.

Hiroshima survivor Sueko Hada and her great-granddaughter Luna.

This Hiroshima survivor’s family now includes American in-laws

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The US atomic attack on Hiroshima wiped out Sueko Hada’s family, leaving her orphaned at age seven. Now her granddaughter is married to an American and raising their two children in Colorado.

screen capture hiroshima atomic bomb game

What if your hometown were hit by the Hiroshima atomic bomb?

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This app simulates the damage of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 70 years ago on another location, such as your hometown.

Masaaki Murakami, a volunteer guide at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park listens to 87-year-old atomic bomb survivor Noriho Azuma.

After the A-bomb survivors die, who will be Hiroshima’s memory keepers?

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A chance encounter in Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park gives an 87-year-old survivor hope that his memory will live on after he dies.

Social worker Minori Nakaso pays a home visit to an atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima.

As Hiroshima’s survivors age, their need to speak out grows

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In the fourth part of a 2005 series on the lingering mental health effects of the atomic bomb, what is the psychological effect of surviving an atomic bomb blast, and the radiation that followed? Researchers say Hiroshima’s survivors, often stuck living in the past, are plagued by their “maximum authority” as direct witnesses and struggle with a “lifelong encounter with death.”