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Preserving Hiroshima's A-Bomb Heritage

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Aug 10, 2013
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Sixty-eight years ago last week, the atomic bomb blew the roof off of the Kirihawa family's container factory in Hiroshima but left the red brick walls standing. Rising like a Phoenix, the container factory was back in business in three months but the factory relic remained, a constant reminder of the devastation caused by the world's first atomic bomb.

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