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Yuji Yamamoto
For Yuji Yamamoto's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Aug 7, 2020
Japan institute struggling to preserve A-bomb autopsy materials
Specimens from victims were held by the U.S. for almost 30 years. Now returned and fading, the government has refused to fund their digitization.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Nov 8, 2018
Hiroshima A-bomb survivor: Yoshinori Kato regrets failing to save the lives of trapped schoolchildren
Words of regret run repeatedly through the mind of Yoshinori Kato: "I'm sorry I couldn't save you."
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Jul 15, 2018
Hiroshima mom waited three decades before she shared her A-bomb experience
Ren Taoda couldn't get over the regret she felt about denying her badly burned son water as they fled the fires in Hiroshima sparked by the atomic bomb.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
May 10, 2018
Hiroshima hibakusha recalls warmth of Southeast Asian students who helped her survive A-bomb blast
Meiko Kurihara was a 19-year-old mobilized student at Toyo Kogyo (now Mazda Motor Corp.) when the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Apr 12, 2018
Hiroshima hibakusha turns to tanka for anti-nuclear message
For Sachiko Tanaka, her battered Japanese dictionary, the Kojirin, is not just any other lexicon.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Feb 8, 2018
Korean hibakusha in Hiroshima recalls dual discrimination he secretly endured
For much of his life, Lee Jong Keun felt he had to hide two aspects of his identity: his status as a second-generation Korean in Japan and his history as an A-bomb survivor.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on