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Hibakusha: Sharing experiences in English and ‘the power of great literature’

“Soon there will be no hibakusha left alive,” says Masahito Hirose, 77, to a group of about 20 senior high school students visiting Nagasaki from Tokyo. “You and I are linked by a very slender thread of fate.“

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