NHK WORLD PRIME

Season 3, Episode 15

Episode Title: Helping Hands - The Lives of Atomic Bomb Orphans

Air Date: 2019-09-21

Overview:

Some 6,500 children are believed to have lost their parents when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Prefecture in 1945. Many wandered the streets. Some died of hunger and disease, but others were able to survive thanks to helping hands. A number of Americans backed a movement to support the orphans. In South Korea, poor people helped a parentless child with love, as if they were all family. The program shows the goodwill that war could not destroy.