(4 Aug 2025)
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Ninoshima, Japan – 8 July 2025
1. Various of university researcher Rebun Kayo digging in search for remains of victims of Hiroshima atomic bomb
2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Rebun Kayo, researcher at Hiroshima University’s Center for Peace:
“Unless 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.”
3. Various of Kayo sifting soil through colander in search of bone fragments
4. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Rebun Kayo, researcher at Hiroshima University’s Center for Peace:
“I 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? When I think about that, I just can’t come to terms with it at all.”
5. Kayo traveling on ferry from Hiroshima
6. Various of view of Ninoshima from ferry
7. Wide of Kayo walking to his digging site on Ninoshima island
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Ninoshima, Japan – 7 July 2025
8. Remains of a pier used for the military quarantine center
9. Tilt up of remains of an incinerator at the former military quarantine site, later used to burn the bodies of atomic bomb victims
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Ninoshima, Japan – 8 July 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Rebun Kayo, researcher at Hiroshima University’s Center for Peace:
"Even though 80 years have passed, as fellow human beings, we first need to bring out the remains to light. Then, we must give them a proper, human burial. Right now, it’s just soil covering them – it can’t really be called a burial. They should be placed respectfully in an urn and laid to rest somewhere appropriate. And unless we all come together, put our hands together in prayer, and honor them, I believe, for these individuals the war still hasn’t truly ended.”
11. Various of Kayo praying in front of flowers before he begins his work
12. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Rebun Kayo, researcher at Hiroshima University’s Center for Peace:
(About objects he finds during his search, such as building fragments)
“They serve as storytellers, preserving the exact state of that time. They can’t speak like humans, of course, but I believe they still communicate something to us.”
13. Kayo entering digging site
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Ninoshima, Japan – 7 July 2025
14. View of Hiroshima seen from Ninoshima
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Hiroshima, Japan – 9 July 2025
15. Various of Kayo showing a box containing the baby jaw and skull fragments he found to Tamiko Sora, an atomic bomb survivor
16. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Tamiko Sora, atomic bomb survivor:
"When we opened the lid of the air-raid shelter, the city of Hiroshima had been so completely destroyed that the mountains, which used to appear far away, now looked as if they were right nearby."
17. Various of Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome memorial
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ARCHIVE: Hiroshima, Japan – August 1945
18. Various of devastation at Hiroshima in aftermath of the atom bomb
19. Various of Japanese civilians making their way across debris with umbrellas
20. Various of devastation
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Hiroshima, Japan – 9 July 2025
21. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Tamiko Sora, atomic bomb survivor:
“A woman, her entire body burned, holding a small child in her arms, cried out, ‘Please, just save this child’."
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