Teenage A-bomb victim of Hiroshima identified through DNA analysis

A victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II has been identified as a 13-year-old girl through DNA testing, the first successful case of A-bomb victim identification using DNA, the Hiroshima city government said Monday.The hair and ashes kept on the premises of the Peace Memorial Park were found to belong to Hatsue Kajiyama, who went missing after the U.S. bombing of the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945, in the closing stages of the war.The hair was preserved with the ashes recorded as Michiko Kajiyama in the burial registry for unclaimed ashes. However, Shuji, the 60-y…READ FULL ARTICLE