THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 8, 2022 at 19:55 JST
Kazuhiro Ihara, right, and Masao Tomonaga attend the first meeting of state parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna on June 22. (Mami Okada)
Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment in a five-part series on the “atomic-bombed violin.” The stringed instrument, once owned by a Russian, survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. It was restored a decade ago and its sound has since touched many people’s hearts across borders.
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