[Shinto priests, Meiji Shrine, Tokyo]

2,500 meters from epicenter, civilians flee and search for survivors, following dropping of atomic bomb on Nagasaki

[Dead mother and child, lying on the platform of the Uragami train station, victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki]

Hiroshima, directly after the fog cleared. Catholic Church in foreground.

the Cloth of the Thousand stitches is wanted by every pious soldier because every stitch, sewed by a different hand, is an added protection. This Boy Scout solicits stitches

[Militarized shrine in the home of Seguro Kizu, a Tokyo baker conscripted into the Japanese army]

[Aerial of ruins of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb blast]

Tokyo

A performer of Butoh dance

[Residents wander cleared streets bisecting the ruins of buildings reduced to piles of rubble by the atomic bomb, dropped a few months earlier]

[Two girls siting on a boulder drawing, Osaka]

[People gather around a steaming shrine, Tokyo]

[Boy standing on the platform waiting for a train, Tokyo]

[Man, identified as a radical leftist, reads a speech from a scroll on May Day, Tokyo]

Trace #10, Iwase General Hospital

Camera Mainichi

[Japanese Naval Offices]

[Boat on display for sale, people at right]

[Shinto priests in the garden of Meiji Temple, Tokyo]

Some men want to make a distinction as to how other men are killed. They would outlaw poison gas, and the atom bomb--allow the flame thrower, rockets, and block-buster bombs.

[Shinobu holding bowl and chopsticks, head bent]

Front line on Okinawa. One rifleman's first day of combat; No Speeches, No Flags, No GloryF

A much more recent second outbreak of Minamata Disease broke out in Niigata prefecture in 1965. The case ended last September (1971) with the victory of the plaintiffs.

[Shinobu Sakamoto, Minamata Disease victim]