Mori, historian and A-bomb survivor who met Obama in Hiroshima, dies at 88

HIROSHIMA - Shigeaki Mori, a historian and an atomic bomb survivor who met Barack Obama in 2016 during the then U.S. president's visit to Hiroshima, died at the weekend at a hospital in the Japanese city, his family said Tuesday. He was 88.

Mori was known for his decades-long efforts in investigating and identifying 12 American prisoners-of-war who were killed in the U.S. atomic bombing that devastated Hiroshima in the closing stages of World War II. He himself had survived the blast at age 8.