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ID Code 2301-0001
Artifact Name Lunch box
Donor ORIMEN Shigeko
Receiving Date 1962/07/24
Size (W×H×D) (mm) 175×45×105
Distance from the Hypocenter(m) 600
Number 1
Location Peace Memorial Park vicinity
Description Shigeru Orimen was a first-year student at Second Hiroshima Prefectural Junior High School. He was exposed to the bomb at his building demolition work site. Early in the morning of August 9, his mother found a body with this lunch box clutched under the stomach. The lunch Shigeru never ate was charred black.

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