The Japanese Historian Honoring Hiroshima’s American Dead

Mori Shigeaki speaks in his Hiroshima home. (© Kusano Seiichirō)

A photo of Thomas Cartwright, pilot of the Lonesome Lady. (© Kusano Seiichirō)

The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome lies near the epicenter of the August 6 blast. (© Kusano Seiichirō)

Mori holds a piece of wreckage from the B-24 Taloa. (© Kusano Seiichirō)

The brass plaque for the US POWs who died in Hiroshima in 1945. (© Kusano Seiichirō)

Barry Frechette with Mori Shigeaki and his wife, Kayoko, during a trip to Japan. (Courtesy of Barry Frechette)