Young fans cheer for their home team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, in a 32,000-seat stadium built within striking distance of the Aioi Bridge—the target of the world's first atomic bomb. The bomb was detonated by the United States of America on August 6, 1945.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hiroshima: Up From Ground Zero," August 1995, National Geographic magazine)