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Mr Kubota

December 6, 2010 David Hurley 0

As a young man in wartime Japan Mr K was considered unfit for military service because of his weak lungs. But by 1945 the need for new recruits had grown so desperate that even Mr K, weak lungs and all, was considered fit enough for military service.

He was told that he would be drafted into the military on 15th August 1945. In the meantime he was working for the Hiroshima City government demolishing houses in the centre of Hiroshima. Why were houses being demolished?