Japanese poet recalls censorship of late friend's work

Japanese poet recalls censorship of late friend's work

TOKYO, Japan - Poet Kiyoko Horiba stands on a beach near her home in Onjuku, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2014. She wonders why the postwar Allied occupation authorities had to cut a reference to the Japanese army's atrocities in Hiroshima A-bomb surviving poet Sadako Kurihara's poems in "Black Eggs" in 1946, if not the A-bomb part itself, as Horiba, also an A-bomb survivor, helped Kurihara publish the full original version in 1983. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

A-bomb literature materials for World Memory

A-bomb literature materials for World Memory

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows the final draft of Sankichi Toge's Poems of the Atomic Bomb, author and atomic bomb survivor Tamiki Hara's notepad, and anti-war poet Sadako Kurihara's notebook (from L to R) at Hiroshima city hall on June 5, 2014. A citizen group announced the same day it will seek to have the materials included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

A-bomb-exposed poet's documents donated to Hiroshima univ.

A-bomb-exposed poet's documents donated to Hiroshima univ.

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Tokiko Tsuchiya (R), head of a citizens' group seeking to preserve Hiroshima-related literary materials, looks at articles of the late poet Sadako Kurihara, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing, donated to Hiroshima Jogakuin University in Hiroshima, western Japan, on May 10, 2014.

Poet Sadako Kurihara, who depicted A-bomb tragedy, dies

Poet Sadako Kurihara, who depicted A-bomb tragedy, dies

OSAKA, Japan - In this file photo taken on Aug. 6 2003, Sadako Kurihara, a poet who depicted the tragedy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, recites her poem at a peace rally in Hiroshima. Kurihara died on March 6 at her home in Hiroshima. She was 92.

Poet Sadako Kurihara, who depicted A-bomb tragedy, dies

Poet Sadako Kurihara, who depicted A-bomb tragedy, dies

OSAKA, Japan - In this file photo taken on Aug. 6 2003, Sadako Kurihara, a poet who depicted the tragedy of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, recites her poem at a peace rally in Hiroshima. Kurihara died on March 6 at her home in Hiroshima. She was 92. (Kyodo)