Hiroshima survivor’s efforts to memorialize American POWs

The World

It’s be 73 years since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Survivor Mori Shigeaki, 81, has spent more than four decades finding out the truth about how many people died and what happened to 12 American POWs who also lost their lives. 

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