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Expressing the horror of Hiroshima in 17 syllables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Shigemoto Yasuhiko is recalling the day he first saw the incinerated city of Hiroshima as a 15-year-old boy.

“I had escaped the blast and I came to check on my friends,” he says. “I walked across this bridge and even five days after the bomb, it was covered with charred bodies. I had to step over them, but there were so many I walked on someone. The river underneath was full of people too, floating like dead fish. There are no words to describe what I felt.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 8 , August 2005 , e17
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