By RIKA YUMINAGA/ Staff Writer
August 22, 2020 at 18:55 JST
Chieko Ryu stands in the ruins of her Nagasaki home beside a charred body on Aug. 10, 1945, a day after the city's atomic bombing. The photograph is on display at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. (Photographed by Yosuke Yamahata. Provided by Shogo Yamahata)
Chieko Ryu, who as a girl was captured in an iconic photograph taken a day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945, died on Aug. 15, the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. She was 90 years old. [Read More]
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