In rooms throughout his home, 90-year-old Masakazu Saito has dozens of old clocks indicating it is 8:15 a.m. — the time an atomic bomb flattened Hiroshima and nearly killed him seven decades ago.

"This keeps me remembering the event that should never happen again," he says.

Although Saito, who was stationed in Hiroshima as an army lieutenant at the time, survived injuries from the bombing, he still suffers from the after-effects.