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Inscribing Hiroshima: The Photography of Matsushige Yoshito

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Greg Mitchell
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There are dozens of brilliant war photographers, but there is only one Yoshito Matsushige.

For many years, Matsushige, 92, worked for a major metro daily called Chugoku Shimbun. He may not have been the greatest war photographer ever but he is unique: he took the only photographs in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, the day the first atomic bomb was detonated over the city, killing 150,000 people.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 5 , May 2005 , e2
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