“I’m no longer so confident about remembering the past,” said Hidetada Yoshida, 95, in the peaceful village of Hirata in Fukushima Prefecture's countryside.
Memories of his childhood, when he suffered from poverty as a result of World War II, are growing hazy.
Near the end of the war, Yoshida, as a student, engaged in the mining of ores, including uranium, in the neighboring town of Ishikawa for use in Japan’s research into the development of atomic bombs, known as the Ni-Go Project.
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