Historian’s wife continues his research on U.S. captives in Hiroshima
Shigeaki Mori became famous when he hugged then U.S. President Barack Obama in Hiroshima in 2016. Since his death, Kayoko Mori has continued his work.
HIROSHIMA – Following the demise of Shigeaki Mori, a renowned Japanese historian specializing in the American prisoners of war who perished in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, his wife Kayoko Mori, aged 84, took up his research endeavors. Kayoko Mori, who collaborated closely with her husband to disseminate the message that the catastrophe of the atomic bombing transcended national boundaries, expressed her commitment to continuing their late husband's legacy.
Exactly two and a half months following Shigeaki Mori's death at the age of 88, Robert Tatalovich, a 66-year-old relative of one of the U.S. captives who had tragically passed away, embarked on his inaugural visit to Hiroshima. Guided by his mother-in-law, Kayoko Mori, Robert Tatalovich journeyed to a hill on the outskirts of the city where a U.S. military aircraft crashed, leading to the capture of his uncle, Joseph Dubinsky. Later, this same uncle succumbed to the effects of the atomic bombing.
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