hiroshima today

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Tomorrow, May 27, President Barack Obama will be visiting Hiroshima, Japan, nearly 71 years since the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city on August 6, 1945.

Thanks to a few Getty photographers, we can take a look at the modern city and portraits of still-living survivors of the bombing.

On May 26, 2016, schoolchildren look at an old photograph of the Atomic Bomb Dome before the bombing in Hiroshima, Japan, standing across the river from the still-standing ruins.

Vehicles travel near Hondori, through downtown Hiroshima on May 26, 2016.

Emiko Okada, 79, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, poses at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 25, 2016.

A visitor looks at Kurogane holly trees that were radiated but survived, between Gokoku Shrine and Hiroshima Castle on May 26, 2016.

A man walks on Inaribashi, in Hiroshima, on May 26, 2016.

The hands of Sunao Tsuboi, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and an anti-nuclear and anti-war activist, in Hiroshima on May 26, 2016.

A ferry cruises in front of the A-bomb dome in Hiroshima on May 26, 2016.

A woman pays respects at the arch inside Peace Memorial Park on May 26, 2016, in Hiroshima.

Park Nam-Joo, 83, an ethnic Korean survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who suffered from breast and skin cancer after being heavily exposed to radiation following the bombing in 1945May 25, 2016.

People travel inside Hiroshima Station on May 26, 2016.

Shigeaki Mori, a historian and survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, at his home in Hiroshima on May 26, 2016.

People ride a trolley car in Hiroshima on May 26, 2016.

A woman replaces the flowers at the ‘Monument in remembering of the Korean victims of A-bomb’ in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial park.

Misako Katani, 86, who was exposed to radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at a nursing home in Hiroshima Prefecture on May 26, 2016.

A guide from the survivors group shows an old picture of the Atomic Bomb Dome to middle school students on May 26, 2016.

People walk by Andersen bread shop, which used to be Teikoku Bank, on May 26, 2016, in Hiroshima.

The A-bomb dome illuminated at dusk on May 26, 2016.

Keiko Ogura, 78, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, posing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 25, 2016.

Schoolchildren take notes and listen to what the guide says at the site of the Atomic Bomb Dome on May 26, 2016, in Hiroshima, Japan.