Preserving the Hibakusha Legacy: Project in Hiroshima Aims to Keep Testimonies of Atomic Bomb Survivors Alive

Hosomitsu Norie speaks to an audience at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Hosomitsu uses her whole body when relating Kasaoka’s experience.

A US military photo taken in November 1945 shows the heavily damaged Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition Hall (now the A-bomb Dome) and destruction of the city center. (Courtesy of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)

Hiroshima municipal employee Nakagawa Haruaki explains the background of the A-Bomb Legacy Successor program.

One of the rooms where successors are trained.

A panel gives the times for lectures by A-bomb successors.

Kasaoka Sadae, now in her eighties, still sees great value in talking about her own experience.

Kasaoka, front left, with her family in 1940.

Hosomitsu Norie talks about becoming an A-Bomb successor.

Kasaoka, left, and Hosomitsu.