HIROSHIMA Kento Ogata regrets not paying closer attention when he was growing up to his grandfather’s stories about the aftermath of the city’s atomic bombing.
Yoshinao Shimamoto, a 61-year-old living in Kobe, always knew his parents had been exposed to the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in the final stages of World War II on Aug. 6, 1945, but he never had the chance to discuss it with them in detail.