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  2. Hiroshima Maidens - Wikipedia

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    This press coverage, combined with New York screenings of the 1953 film Hiroshima, led the State Department to issue an internal memo stating that "helping victims of misfortune is a very worthwhile endeavor but every effort should be made to keep the project involving the Hiroshima girls from stirring up propaganda against nuclear weapons". [21]

  3. Sadako Sasaki - Wikipedia

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    Sasaki was at home, about 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) away from ground zero, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.She was blown out of the window and her mother ran out to find her, suspecting she might be dead, but instead finding her two-year-old daughter alive with no apparent injuries.

  4. Yoshiwara - Wikipedia

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    The red-light district in Yoshiwara serves as the setting for the second season of the anime series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. [11] [12] The finale of said arc also makes an allusion to the 1913 fire. The red-light district of Yoshiwara was a recurring setting in the manga Jin by Motoka Murakami, as well as the 2009–2011 TV series Jin.

  5. In This Corner of the World - Wikipedia

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    Kiseno Urano – Suzu's mother. Missing after the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, and probably killed. Yōichi Urano – Suzu's elder brother. As a soldier sent to an island of the battles in the southern Pacific Ocean. Reported to be killed in action. Rin Shiraki – A courtesan working in the red light district of Kure.

  6. In This Corner of the World (film) - Wikipedia

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    That morning, Suzu and Keiko notice a bizarre light, followed by a sudden quake. The radio doesn't work and then the family sees a towering cloud in the direction of Hiroshima City. They soon learn that a new, devastating bomb has fallen on Hiroshima, killing countless citizens. For a while, Suzu is unable to get information about her hometown.

  7. List of red-light districts - Wikipedia

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    Manningham – the red light district is situated around Lumb Lane and Manningham Lane and was featured in the TV series Band of Gold. [250] Huddersfield. Great Northern Street [251] Leeds. Chapeltown – the traditional red light-area was around the Spencer Place and Avenue Hill streets. This has diminished in importance since the emergence of ...

  8. NYC neighborhood in AOC’s district blasted as ‘third world ...

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    Local resident Ramses Frías, a Democrat-turned-Republican who is running for the Assembly District 39 seat to clean up his community's streets, filmed blocks and blocks of illegal vendors selling ...

  9. Street of Shame - Wikipedia

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    Street of Shame (赤線地帯, Akasen chitai, lit."Red-light district") is a 1956 Japanese drama film and the last film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. [1] [2] The story, which revolves around a group of women of different backgrounds who work together in a brothel in Tokyo, is based on the novel Susaki no onna by Yoshiko Shibaki.