Author: Nadine Bukhman

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It was an emotional and inspirational day for those who made it to the Japan Information Centre on November 27 to hear Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow speak.

Diminutive, and eloquently spoken, Mrs Thurlow treated the crowd to a screening of the 2009 documentary, “Flashes Of Hope”, in which she and 102 other Hibakusha travelled for four months on the Peace Boat to share their first-hand accounts and their desire to never again see nuclear war on this planet.

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