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Hibakusha: Poetry reaches the heart of an A-bomb survivor's adversity
Hiroshi Maruya, an honorary director of Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital who was exposed to radiation from the atomic bomb that devastated Hiroshima, was diagnosed with bladder cancer in April this year. He remembers a sign of his illness: a white toilet bowl stained red.Full article
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