"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

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Photo Set 2

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Kojin Bridge, 1.800 meters from the hypocenter

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Mr. Yasuo Fujita
age: 38; occupation: manager; family: wife and three children
<At the time> age: 5; at home (1,500 meters from the hypocenter); elder sister and elder brother died; grandmother, parents, and elder sister injured.

"After a few minutes I regained consciousness. Looking around, I realized that a cart shielded me, although I was caught under the falling house." (written at age 12)

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Lunch Box
Reiko Watanabe (15 at the time) was doing fire prevention work under the Student Mobilization Order, at a place 500 meters from the hypocenter. Her lunch box was found by school authorities under a fallen mud wall. Its contents of boiled peas and rice, a rare feast at the time, were completely carbonized. Her body was not found.

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