"HIROSHIMA" by Hiromi Tsuchida

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Photo Set 3

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Formerly an army-uniform factory; now a Ministry of Transportation warehouse, 2.500 meters from the hypocenter.

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Mr. Thoru Hara
age: 45; occupation: office worker; family: wife and two children
<at that time> age: 13; at home (2,000 meters from the hypocenter); mother and two elder sisters injured.

"Should the city of the Peace Memorial be a mere tourist attraction? Should a pathetic man with a keloid scar be a show in a booth?" (written at age 17)

Geta (Wooden Clog)
Miyoko Inoue (15 at the time) was doing fire prevention work with other students under the Student Mobilization Order in Zaimoku-cho at a place 500 meters from the hypocenter. All the students died. This is what her mother, Tomiko, found near the hypocenter , where she searched for her daughter for three months after the bombing. Her daughter's bodoy was not found.

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