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Nine theater troupe members who perished in Hiroshima atomic bombing to be honored tomorrow in Tokyo
Nine members of a traveling wartime theater company known as the Sakuratai (cherry blossom troupe), who lost their lives to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, will be remembered on Aug. 6 in a memorial service at Gohyaku Rakanji Temple in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward. The ceremony will also include a storytelling performance titled “Sakuratai: The Night…
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Medical records of world’s first radiation victim from A-bomb recovered
Long-lost medical records detailing the sharply deteriorating health of the world’s first recognized radiation sickness patient have been recovered 68 years after the victim died within weeks of being exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. The patient, Midori Naka, a stage actress, died 18 days after she was injured in the nuclear blast on…