Silent witnesses of Hiroshima: Researchers and survivors seek to honor the unnamed dead of Ninoshima
Among those deeply touched by Kayo’s work is Tamiko Sora, a 3-year-old survivor of the Hiroshima blast who still wonders what became of her missing aunt and uncle.
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00:01Eighty years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, efforts continue on the nearby island of Ninoshima to uncover the remains of victims, many still unaccounted for, many likely children.
00:15Unless I experience it with all five senses, I can't truly get close to how people felt at the time, just how much pain they must have gone through. As someone who has been given the opportunity to uncover them, I believe I have a responsibility to understand that.
00:34Robin Kaya, a researcher at Hiroshima's University Center for Peace, has made it his nation to recover and honor those forgotten.
00:44I found tiny, clean child teeth, not yet permanent teeth. What could such a little child, practically a baby, possibly have done wrong? They hadn't supported the war in any way. Why did they have to be killed in such an unjust, senseless way and buried here? And when I think about it, I just can't come to terms with it at all.
01:10Among those deeply touched by Kaya's work is Tamiko Sura, a three-year-old survivor at the Hiroshima blast, who still wonders what happened to a missing aunt and uncle.
01:25When I searched through various records together with Mr. Kaya, we gradually began to think that my uncle and aunt may have been taken to Ninoshima.
01:36Sura now visits the island to offer prayers for her and many others. The war's devastation still lingers.
