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Hiroshima's Survivors, PRI - The World, 2006 Radio Dart Award Winner
 
Hiroshima's Survivors: The Last Generation

This four-part series introduces listeners to some of the more-than-250,000 living survivors of the atomic bomb blast, including a woman who has only recently gone public with her memories, Korean immigrants whose status as outsiders has made their ordeal even more difficult, and Japanese-American Hiroshima survivors now living in California.

 

Part One 1 August 2005

Reporter Patrick Cox begins the series with a profile of Sueko Hada a survivor in Hiroshima. She was seven years old on August 6, 1945, when her entire family perished in the explosion. Listen & Read

Part Two 2 August 2005

The World's Patrick Cox continues the series with the voices of Koreans who were living in Hiroshima in 1945. Now these aging survivors are struggling with the Japanese and Korean governments to obtain medical assistance for maladies they say resulted from radiation exposure. Listen & Read

Part Three 3 August 2005

About a thousand survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb live in the United States. They kept silent about the bomb for decades. Now some of them are speaking out. America's Hiroshima survivors tell their stories. Listen & Read

Part Four 4 August 2005

Today, a quarter of a million people are registered as A-bomb survivors. They're elderly now. What they saw, what they remember, and what they say will help shape how future generations understand nuclear war. Listen & Read

 
 
 
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