A-bomb survivors' offspring set up association in western Japan

Chizuko Kado speaks during an event in Okayama city on Oct. 24, 2015, marking the establishment of an association of residents in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Okayama who are children and grandchildren of survivors of the atomic-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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