Children's picture book depicts tragedy of Hiroshima A-bombing

Artist Yasushi Tsukamoto talks about "Inori no ishi" (Stone for Peace), a children's picture book about the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, published by Froebel-Kan Co. last month, during an interview in Tokyo on July 8, 2015. Tsukamoto hopes the book will help pass on lessons from the tragedy and World War II as a whole to the younger generation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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