'Mini-storytellers': Japanese children pass on horror of Nagasaki bombings

As more and more survivors who directly witnessed the nuclear attack die, students are taking on responsibility for telling their storiesThe 500 students at Shiroyama Elementary School gather in the assembly hall on the ninth day of every month to sing a song. This is no ordinary school anthem, however.Dear Children’s Souls deals with the most traumatic chapter in the school’s long history: the moment 1,400 students and 28 staff members died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the southern Japanese city of Nagasaki in the closing stages of the second world war. Continue reading…
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