Mass production: Masami Teraoka and Angelica Mesiti

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Mass production: Masami Teraoka and Angelica Mesiti

When he was just nine years of age, the Japanese-American artist Masami Teraoka was walking to school with his older sister, Yasue, in their home town of Onomichi, when he saw something that would sear itself into his memory. It was August 6, 1945, and the children noticed what they first took to be a second sun in the sky. Yasue couldn’t explain the odd phenomenon to her brother, but the next day their school principal broke the terrible news: …