Ikunosuke “Mike” Kawamura solemnly rings the Friendship Bell on Shelter Island on Aug. 6 at exactly 8:15 a.m. — commemorating the exact time that America’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 140,000 people on Aug. 6, 1945. At the time, Kawamura was two-and-a-half years old and lived less than two miles from where the bomb fell. The Friendship Bell was given to the city of San Diego in 1958 by the city of Yokohama under a sister-city agreement signed by both municipalities in 1957.
