Her mother and sister prepared to evacuate to an air raid shelter, but she hid behind a shelf in her home and covered herself with a duvet, fearing that incendiary bombs might fall on the shelter.

Shizuko Nishio started shaking and sank to her knees as she watched TV news footage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That was two years ago. One scene, of a Ukrainian girl weeping in an ...

The temple had an underground air raid shelter, where locals took refuge during the attack. Yagawa Mitsunori, a piano tuner in Hiroshima, transported the 85-year-old instrument for the event.