Hiroshima Historian Mori Shigeaki Heads for America

President Barack Obama embraces Mori Shigeaki at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27, 2016. (© Jiji)

In Mori’s home, a photograph of Thomas Cartwright is on display next to materials showing the crew of the Lonesome Lady. (© Kusano Seiichirō)

The Genbaku Dome (Hiroshima Peace Memorial) stands near ground zero. Aioi Bridge is visible to the left. (© Kusano Seiichirō)

Mori Shigeaki speaks about his experience in Hiroshima and his connections with the American POWs’ families at an April 2018 screening of Paper Lanterns in Fujisawa, Kanagawa.