Schoolboy offers Hiroshima tours

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In Hiroshima, a schoolboy keeps memories of war alive with guided tours

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Shun Sasaki, 12, guides foreign visitors in English as a volunteer guide in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan July 15, 2025. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Since the age of seven, Japanese schoolboy Shun Sasaki has been offering free guided tours to foreign visitors of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with a mission: ensuring that the horrors of nuclear war do not fade from memory with the passage of time.

Aged 12 now, Shun has conveyed that message to some 2,000 visitors, recounting in his imperfect but confident English, the experiences of his great-grandmother, a 'hibakusha' or survivor of the atomic bomb.

"I want them to know how bad is war and how good is peace. Instead of fighting, we should talk to each other about the good things of each other," Shun said.

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