The World in Words 99: Self-censorship over Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Two takes on self-censorship. A child survivor of Hiroshima explains why she kept quiet about her experiences for so long, through the pain and guilt of survival. Late in life, she tells her story, in the presence of her daughter and granddaughters. Then, a Japanese examination of the self-censorship of American newspaper reporters and editors in the weeks after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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