HIROSHIMA – Nearly 70 years after a U.S. atomic bomb laid waste to the city of Hiroshima, the attack continues to hold an important place in the psyche of its residents.
Every year, the ceremony commemorating the Aug. 6 bombing and the people who perished is the focus of the Hiroshima summer.
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