Kayoko Sakura no Saku Hi
かよこ桜の咲く日
Synopsis
Anime depicts 15-year-old Kayoko Hayashi's death in Nagasaki bombing and her mother's cherry tree memorial for peace.
An anime about the real story of 15 year old Kayoko Hayashi. After the Nagasaki atomic bomb, Kayoko's body was found 21 days later crushed under the Shiroyama school building where she had been volunteering for the war effort. 50 cherry tree saplings were donated by her mother (6 of which have survived today) to the Shiroyama elementary school as a memorial to her daughter and to the other children who lost their lives so that people many pray for peace.
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