80 Years On: NPO Working to Digitize Materials on A-Bombings

   Saitama, Aug. 4 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese nonprofit organization is accelerating efforts to digitize valuable materials related to the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in cooperation with last year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo.
   The organization, No More Hibakusha Project- Inheriting Memories of the A- and H-Bomb Sufferers, has launched a crowdfunding project to seek cooperation in the efforts.
   The group, established in 2011, has exhibited atomic bombing-related materials in lectures and online museums. It preserves over 20,000 items, including memoirs and testimonies of bomb victims and records of antinuclear movements, in three separate warehouses.
   Stored materials include the original copies of responses to a survey by Nihon Hidankyo, formally called the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, asking 3,690 victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings from 1983 to 1984 about their biggest hardships.
   The responses contain vivid accounts of their experiences. One survivor talked about the person's own mother trapped under a collapsed house, and another recounted fleeing and having to kick away people pleading for help.

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