The Wire

The Japanese city of Nagasaki was destroyed by an atomic bomb sixty two years ago today. Hiroshima had been destroyed two days earlier. The two shocking events ended the war and have scared the world ever since. Masaru Mogi is a Japanese teacher currently on exchange here. He was a small boy when the bombs were dropped but remembers life in Japan after 1945. He says people were terribly poor and the American military authorities censored all newspapers, leaving the shocked Japanese people quite out of touch with their own culture.