Family receives remains of Hiroshima A-bomb victim 81 years after his death
It marks the first time Hiroshima returned the remains of an atomic bomb victim whose name had been found to be recorded incorrectly in its registry.
The city of Hiroshima recently returned the remains of Toshiaki Wakamoto, a 13-year-old victim of the 1945 atomic bombing, to his family after an 81-year gap. The urn containing his remains, which had been misplaced due to a registry error, was found during a thorough examination of 813 urns at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
Wakamoto's 91-year-old sister, Shigeko Miyoshi, received the urn with emotional tears and expressed her overwhelming sadness, reflecting on her mother's heartache every year on August 6th, the anniversary of the bombing. The city has been seeking information from the public to locate the families of the urns with unknown identities, but as of now, there have been no inquiries.
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