HIROSHIMA, Japan — Just like the dwindling group of survivors now recognised with a Nobel prize, Hiroshima's residents hope that the world never forgets the atomic bombing of 1945 — now more than ever.
HIROSHIMA, Japan — Just like the dwindling group of survivors now recognised with a Nobel prize, Hiroshima 's residents hope that the world never forgets the atomic bombing of 1945 — now more than ever.Susumu Ogawa, 84, was five when the bomb dropped by the United States all but obliterated the Japanese city 79 years ago, and many of his family were among the 140,000 people killed.
With the average age among the roughly 105,000 hibakusha still alive now 85, it is vital that young people continue to be taught about what happened, added the retired business consultant.'I was born 10 years after the atom bomb was dropped, so there were many atom bomb survivors around me. I felt the incident as something familiar to me,' he said.'But for the future, it will be an issue.
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