Man talks about life as orphan after A-bombing of Hiroshima

Man talks about life as orphan after A-bombing of Hiroshima

Mikiso Iwasa, 86, recounts his experience of living as an orphan in the postwar era after losing his mother and younger sister in the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima during an interview in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on July 6, 2015. His father had died of illness in May 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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