83-yr-old fights to bring hidden history of post-A-bomb black rain in Hiroshima alive - The Mainichi

HIROSHIMA --

Kazuko Morizono recalls her experience of the "black rain" that fell soon after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the U.S. on Aug. 6, 1945. "The sky in this area had turned completely black," she said in Hiroshima's Asakita Ward, on June 6, 2021. (Mainichi/Naohiro Yamada) HIROSHIMA -- "Black rain," rain contaminated with radioactive substances, fell on Hiroshima shortly after the U.S. military's atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6, 1945. Many people exposed to the rain have suffered, and continue to suffer, from health complications without the benefit of government aid, because the

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