TOKYO — Yoshie Oka, the first person to raise the alarm outside Hiroshima that the Japanese city had been hit by an atomic bomb, has died aged 86, media and acquaintances said Tuesday. Oka was 14 years old on Aug. 6, 1945 and working in Hiroshima as a communications operator at an underground command center of the Imperial Japanese Army. After the bomb fell, she contacted another military unit in the city of Fukuyama east of Hiroshima, local media including public broadcaster NHK reported. In May last year Barack Obama made a historic visit to Hiroshima, becoming the first serving U.S. president to do so. Ahead of his visit, Oka reportedly said she wanted him "to firmly see how innocent citizens suffered."

Source: The China Post May 30, 2017 21:11 UTC