Atomic Bomb Memorial Burial Mound

This guide to the Atomic Bomb Memorial Burial Mound in Hiroshima follows Toshiko Saiki, who lost thirteen relatives after the bombing of August 6, 1945, and for more than forty years swept the steps above the roughly seventy thousand unidentified victims resting beneath it. It traces how, starting in 1970, she began tracing families through old phone directories using a notebook of names, one call at a time. She lit candles here on the eve of the sixth of every month for decades.