Hiroshima Electric Railway Co.’s Type 650 tram was near Chuden-mae station when the bomb detonated on Aug. 6, 1945. It was just 700 meters from Ground Zero. The blast derailed the train ...

HIROSHIMA--When the tram started running again here only three days after the U.S. atomic bombing, 14-year-old Satoko Sasaguchi served as the conductor for the somber ride amid the devastated city.