
Episode 538: The Manhattan Project Part VI - The Greatest Generation
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The Japanese Mafia and the War in Hiroshima
Hiroshima and Nagasaki had far larger problems than what they were going to do with the dead. Thousands returned to the cities as so-called atomic bomb orphans or Gimbaku koji. Many became desperate in one case a boy drank water from flower vases and Cimeteries In order to survive he would go on to form the Japanese version of the cure Oh Others had to leave their pitiful shelters and cross former playgrounds that had since been used as mass cremation sites Just to retrieve clean drinking water. As it almost always goes in times of chaos and desperation some took great advantage of these orphan children. None were more cool with their exploitation than the Japanese mafia aka The
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