• Hiroshima is a 1946 book by American author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It is regarded...
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    Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi, /ˌhɪroʊˈʃiːmə/, also UK: /hɪˈrɒʃɪmə/, US: /hɪˈroʊʃɪmə/, [çiɾoɕima] ) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. As...
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    United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people,...
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  • Japan. Hiroshima may also refer to: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Hiroshima (book), a 1946 book written by John Hersey Hiroshima (1953 film)...
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  • Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back and its revised second edition To Hell and Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima is a book by American author...
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    Hiroshima (ひろしま) is a 1953 Japanese docudrama film directed by Hideo Sekigawa about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and its impact on a group of teachers...
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  • The Hiroshima Maidens (Japanese: 原爆乙女(Genbaku otome); lit. "atomic bomb maidens") are a group of 25 Japanese women who were school age girls when they...
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  • 4 January 2010) was a Japanese marine engineer who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 160...
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    (March 2, 2010). "Julianne Moore Gets Soapy; 'Glee' Tours; Holt Halts Hiroshima Book". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on October 19...
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    origin generally designating the people affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. The word hibakusha is Japanese...
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  • city of Hiroshima, Japan. 587 - The chief temple dates from this time. 1599 - Hiroshima Castle built. 1871 - City becomes seat of Hiroshima Prefecture...
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    over the ethical, legal, and military aspects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 at the close of World War II...
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    Children of Hiroshima (原爆の子, Genbaku no ko, lit. "Children of the Atomic Bomb") is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Kaneto Shindō. Takako Ishikawa...
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    Train from Hiroshima, a look at the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima from the vantage of survivors. The New York Times initially praised the book as "sober...
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    The Hiroshima Domain (広島藩, Hiroshima-han) was a large domain that owned all of Aki Province and half of Bingo Province. It occupies most of current Hiroshima...
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  • Nakazawa's experiences as a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. The series begins in 1945 in and around Hiroshima, Japan, where six-year-old Gen Nakaoka...
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  • physician who survived the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and kept a diary of his experience. He was Director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital and...
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    Sadako Sasaki (category People from Hiroshima)
    1955) was a Japanese girl who became a victim of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. She was two years of age when the bombs...
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  • Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (category Novels about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    diagnosed with leukemia from radiation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Sadako's friend told her to fold origami paper cranes (orizuru) in hope...
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    Fukuyama (福山市, Fukuyama-shi) is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2023[update], the city had an estimated population of 459,160 in...
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  • about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It includes literature, film, music and other art forms. The book Hiroshima mon amour, by Marguerite...
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    the Hiroshima Maidens. He was one of the six Hiroshima survivors whose experiences of the bomb and later life are portrayed in John Hersey's book Hiroshima...
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    Lifton's book Death in Life as Episode 31 in Season 11 of their program Horizon.  The documentary, To Die, To Live, The Survivors of Hiroshima, was written...
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    non-fiction reportage. In 1999, Hiroshima, Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest work...
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    Hiroshima Tōshō-gū (広島東照宮) is a Shinto shrine in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It is Tōshō-gū shrine, which enshrines the first Shōgun of the...
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    for wishing good health. Several temples, including some in Tokyo and Hiroshima, have eternal flames for world peace. At these temples, school groups...
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    Hiroshima Telecasting Co., Ltd. (HTV, 広島テレビ放送株式会社, callsign: JONX-TV) is a TV station in Hiroshima. It is affiliated with Nippon News Network and Nippon...
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    49th G7 summit (category Events in Hiroshima)
    from 19 to 21 May 2023 in the city of Hiroshima in Hiroshima Prefecture. Leaders of G7 countries joined in Hiroshima to discuss a number of challenges to...
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    for The New Yorker magazine that was subsequently published as the book Hiroshima. He lived at his family home in Mukaihara district prior to the detonation...
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  • a German Jesuit who survived the atomic bomb "Little Boy" dropped on Hiroshima. Schiffer was one of several Jesuit priests who were at their mission...
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