I watched this new documentary the other night, and it's really stuck with me.

It tells the story of the famous picture of the little barefoot orphan boy in Nagasaki, Japan in 1945, a couple months after the dropping of the atomic bomb. The boy is standing with his dead little brother in a sack on his back, waiting his turn to have his brother burned in a cremation pit. Absolutely tragic.

The documentary is very basic, but riveting. Experts scrutinize the picture for clues and eventually determine details about the boy's state of health and extent of radiation exposure, also that the picture would have had to have been taken in October 1945, on one or the other of just a couple or so specific dates. They also determine approximately where it was taken.

The documentary interviews some now-elderly former child survivors of the atomic bomb that fell on Nagasaki. They speak of how it not only killed most of their family members, and left them orphans, but how some surviving siblings ultimately committed suicide in childhood or otherwise while young, or similarly died young and tragically.

I highly recommend this excellent 50 minutes examination not only of the picture, but of the devastating toll of war.

It can be seen on NHK World for the next twelve months, until 30 August 2021.

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