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Tanimoto Kiyoshi, one of the subjects of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”, tells his story
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From blinding light to imagined ruin

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As survivors die out, how do you keep the memories of Japan’s atomic apocalypse alive?

Politicians are at loggerheads over how to remember the past

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A new memoir describes not just the day the bomb fell, but the work of rebuilding in the weeks and months after.