Name of orphaned survivor of Hiroshima bombing inscribed at memorial

[yuiyoshida]

HIROSHIMA -- The name of an orphaned survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing was added to a list of the dead at the cenotaph for the A-bomb victims in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park here on Aug. 6, the 70th anniversary of the bombing.

Sachihiko Kumozu, aged 13 at the time of the bombing, lost his mother to the blast and worked to support his four younger brothers. Even after surviving the blast, the five boys lived their lives in the shadow of the bomb.

Sachihiko died of heart illness last September at age 82. The boys' home was around two kilometers northwest of the blast hypocenter. At the time the family ran a chicken farm. Sachihiko's father had already died of illness, but the family, as a supplier to the military of chickens and eggs, was not for want of food even during the war years.

At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the time of the bomb, Sachihiko and his 9-year-old brother Hozumi were inside the house, while their brothers Nobuo, 6, and the youngest, 3, were playing in a river by the house. The youngest brother was burned from his neck to his back, and it was feared he would die. Their 11-year-old brother was not in Hiroshima at the time.

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