Hiroshima Witness
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Hiroshima Witness, also released as Voice of Hibakusha, is a documentary film
featuring 100 interviews of people who survived the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
, also known as hibakusha
. The Hiroshima Witness program was produced in 1986 by the Hiroshima Peace Cultural Center and NHK
, the public broadcasting company of Japan.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
featuring 100 interviews of people who survived the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.For six months...
, also known as hibakusha
Hibakusha
The surviving victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are called , a Japanese word that literally translates to "explosion-affected people"...
. The Hiroshima Witness program was produced in 1986 by the Hiroshima Peace Cultural Center and NHK
NHK
NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
, the public broadcasting company of Japan.