Shigeaki Mori was 8 years old when he survived the Aug. 6, 1945 U.S. attack, only one and a half miles away from the blast.

TOKYO, March 17 (Reuters) - Shigeaki Mori, the survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing whom former U.S. President Barack Obama embraced during a historic visit to the city in 2016, has died at 88, ...

He lived through the first atomic bombing in Japan and then spent decades researching the identities of 12 American P.O.W.s killed in the attack.