Troupe rehearses drama on Hiroshima schoolgirls killed by A-bombing

Troupe rehearses drama on Hiroshima schoolgirls killed by A-bombing

Members of Horeisen, an Osaka-based theater company comprising mainly senior citizens, rehearse a play on Nov. 19, 2015, about students of the Second Hiroshima Prefectural Girls' School, many of whom died in the 1945 atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The drama is based on a book by Chieko Seki, 83, who was absent from school on the tragic day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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