THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 22, 2020 at 07:30 JST
The blouse of 15-year-old Mutsuko Shimogochi, who was 500 meters from ground zero when the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima and died two days later, is exhibited in Rochester, New York, in September. (Provided by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum)
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