Lying in the shadow of Hiroshima
Nagasaki is a city that stands as an afterthought - even though it too had an atomic bomb dropped on it in WW II and 74,000 people died there
Nagasaki, Japan
WHEN Miyako Jodai was six years old, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on her hometown, the port city of Nagasaki.
She was knocked unconscious, and her home was destroyed. She spent the next several days huddling with dozens of others in a cave on the side of a mountain.
"I was so scared," she said. "I was crying, and I stepped on some of the bodies of the injured people, because there was no room to walk." When she finally ventured out, the city was still ablaze with towering flames.
Ms Jodai was one o…
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