Hiroshima survivor writer encourages Fukushima children

Hiroshima survivor writer encourages Fukushima children

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Children books writer Masamoto Nasu shake hands with students at Nakahata Elementary School in the town of Yabuki, Fukushima Prefecture on July 12, 2011. Nasu, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, encouraged the children not to live in irrational fear of the radiation released by the nearby Fukushima Daiichi Power Station, badly damaged by explosions after an earthquake and tsunami in March.

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