Where there was once fire and ruin, Kunihiko Iida now walks through green lawns and memorials. Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park – built on the site where the atomic bomb hit on 6 August 1945 – is today a place of quiet reflection. It is also where 83-year-old Iida spends his time as a volunteer guide, sharing a story it took him 60 years to speak aloud.
Iida was just three years old when the US dropped a uranium bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. He was 900 metres from the hypocentre, at his mother’s childhood home.
