{"id":73254,"date":"2025-08-05T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/05\/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-80-year-anniversary-survivors"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:39:12","slug":"hiroshimas-fading-legacy-the-race-to-secure-survivors-memories-amid-a-new-era-of-nuclear-brinkmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73254","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima\u2019s fading legacy: the race to secure survivors\u2019 memories amid a new era of nuclear brinkmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty years on from the destruction of the city, registered survivors of the blast<em> &#8211; <\/em>known as <em>hibakusha \u2013<\/em> have fallen below 100,000<\/p>\n<p>The fires were still burning, and the dead lay where they had fallen, when a 10-year-old Yoshiko Niiyama entered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2016\/apr\/18\/story-of-cities-hiroshima-japan-nuclear-destruction\">Hiroshima<\/a>, two days after it was destroyed by an American atomic bomb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember that the air was filled with smoke and there were bodies everywhere \u2026 and it was so hot,\u201d Niiyama says in an interview at her home in the Hiroshima suburbs. \u201cThe faces of the survivors were so badly disfigured that I didn\u2019t want to look at them. But I had to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/05\/hiroshima-atomic-bomb-80-year-anniversary-survivors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty years on from the destruction of the city, registered survivors of the blast &#8211; known as hibakusha \u2013 have fallen below 100,000The fires were still burning, and the dead lay where they had fallen, when a 10-year-old Yoshiko Niiyama entered Hiroshi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,441,220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-nuclear-weapons","category-second-world-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73255,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73254\/revisions\/73255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}