Japan launches drive to document Hiroshima, Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors' horrific experiences

Japan launches drive to document Hiroshima, Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors' horrific experiences

Japan's Welfare Ministry launched nationwide effort to collect testimonies from approximately 106,000 remaining survivors, known as hibakusha, of1945 bombings, reports media - Anadolu Ajansı

Nearly eight decades after American forces dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the memory of the human costs persists. In the port city of Nagasaki alone, more than 73,000 people died. “I still remember today that we all cried together, my mother screaming that everyone was saved,” survivor Mase Seiichiro told Expresso