Hiroshima Generations: The memory passed on

<p>Our coverage of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath.</p><p><em>With support from the <a href="http://us-jf.org/">United States-Japan Foundation</a> and the <a href="http://www.nsquarecollaborative.org/">N Square Collaborative</a>.</em></p><p><iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/132362755&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false" width="100%"></iframe></p>

Ari Beser and Keiko Ogura

His grandfather helped bomb Hiroshima. Today, he's friends with a nuclear bomb survivor.

For decades, Keiko Ogura didn't talk about the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

His grandfather helped bomb Hiroshima. Today, he's friends with a nuclear bomb survivor.
Hiroshima survivor Noriho Azuma (wearing a hat) in front of the A-bomb dome in June of 2015.

Hiroshima survivors want more than a US apology

Hiroshima survivors want more than a US apology
Radiation hotspot in Kashiwa, February 2012

They know: Hiroshima survivors help those in Fukushima overcome fear, discrimination

They know: Hiroshima survivors help those in Fukushima overcome fear, discrimination
Aya Kano on board a ferry heading for the island of Ninoshima.

How this granddaughter of A-bomb survivors learned to embrace her family history

How this granddaughter of A-bomb survivors learned to embrace her family history
Hiroshima Peace Memorial.

Respect: A young tour guide, a Hiroshima survivor and a baton passed

Respect: A young tour guide, a Hiroshima survivor and a baton passed
A-bomb survivors: My mom and her mother Jettie on board the ship Oranje, which had been a hospital vessel during the war. They were on the boat’s first post-war civilian transport, making the crossing here from Java to Melbourne, Australia in November 194

The Bomb saved my mom

When the first of the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, Marco Werman's mother was in a WWII prison camp in Indonesia. And, were it not for the bombs, his mom might not have survived the camp.

The Bomb saved my mom
Hiroshima survivor Sueko Hada and her great-granddaughter Luna.

This Hiroshima survivor's family now includes American in-laws

The US atomic attack on Hiroshima wiped out Sueko Hada's family, leaving her orphaned at age seven. Now her granddaughter is married to an American and raising their two children in Colorado.

This Hiroshima survivor's family now includes American in-laws
screen capture hiroshima atomic bomb game

What if your hometown were hit by the Hiroshima atomic bomb?

This app simulates the damage of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 70 years ago on another location, such as your hometown.

What if your hometown were hit by the Hiroshima atomic bomb?
Masaaki Murakami, a volunteer guide at Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park listens to 87-year-old atomic bomb survivor Noriho Azuma.

After the A-bomb survivors die, who will be Hiroshima's memory keepers?

A chance encounter in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park gives an 87-year-old survivor hope that his memory will live on after he dies.

After the A-bomb survivors die, who will be Hiroshima's memory keepers?
Social worker Minori Nakaso pays a home visit to an atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima.

As Hiroshima's survivors age, their need to speak out grows

In the fourth part of a 2005 series on the lingering mental health effects of the atomic bomb, what is the psychological effect of surviving an atomic bomb blast, and the radiation that followed? Researchers say Hiroshima's survivors, often stuck living in the past, are plagued by their "maximum authority" as direct witnesses and struggle with a "lifelong encounter with death."

As Hiroshima's survivors age, their need to speak out grows
Atomic bomb survivor Teruko Namura (left) with a friend at her home in Los Angeles.

Let down by two governments, US-based Hiroshima survivors fend for themselves

In the third part of a 2005 series on the lingering mental health effects of the atomic bomb, we hear from US-based Hiroshima survivors. Over the years, they have been spurned by the Japanese government, the US government and even the Japanese American establishment. Now in their later years, things are finally improving for some.

Let down by two governments, US-based Hiroshima survivors fend for themselves
An elderly Korean woman appears with her son and daughter-in-law at a hearing in Hiroshima to determine whether she is eligible for special rights accorded to survivors of the atomic bomb.

Korean survivors of Hiroshima have had to fight for their rights

During World War Two, Japan imported Koreans to cities like Hiroshima to work, in slave-like conditions, in armaments factories. When the atomic bomb struck, thousands of Koreans were killed or injured. But the Japanese government has been slow to extend survivor benefits to Korean nationals.

Korean survivors of Hiroshima have had to fight for their rights
Hiroshima survivor Sueko Hada (foreground) with her daughter, granddaughters and great-granddaughter.

‘It truly was a vision of Hell’ – a Hiroshima survivor speaks out

In the first of a 2005 series on the lingering mental health effects of the atomic bomb, a survivor who was seven in 1945 has decided to speak publicly about her ordeal.

‘It truly was a vision of Hell’ – a Hiroshima survivor speaks out