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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The Hiroshima Maidens (1955) w/ Josh Levin
Description: It’s October 3rd. This day in 1956, a group of 25 Japanese women are heading back to Japan after spending a year in the United States receiving medical and cosmetic surgery.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Slate’s Josh Levin to talk about the “Hiroshima Maidens,” who came to this country and showed Americans the horrific consequences of nuclear attack.
Josh tells the story of the maidens in a new episode of his series “One Year: 1955.” Check it out now wherever you get your podcasts.
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