The Boston Globe, July 31st, 1995
Japan and the countries it fought in World War II have yet to reach a consensus over what the war and the atomic bombs that ended the war were about Mugi Hanao, assistant in the Globe's Tokyo bureau, contributed to this report NAGASAKI -- Bach's "Air" wafts to an exquisite end in the reconstructed Urakami Cathedral. As conductor Seiji Ozawa requests, there is no applause. Musicians and singers from Tokyo, Chicago and Boston -- Asians, Caucasians, African-Americans -- face thousands of atomic-bomb survivors and their descendants in an electric silence. Ozawa stands motionless, head bowed, hand...
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