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Postwar Hiroshima mayor's memoirs published in English

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Junso Hamai, son of the late Hiroshima Mayor Shinso Hamai, holds the English version of his father's memoirs ''A-bomb Mayor'' in Hiroshima on Nov. 2, 2010. The book by Shinso, who served as Hiroshima mayor for four terms during the era of the city's postwar reconstruction after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing, was published in Japan in 1967 and has been translated into English by Elizabeth Baldwin, an American residing in Hiroshima. (Kyodo)