fujie sakamoto remembering the terrible effects of industrial pollution.tch witness every month on the bbc news channel or you can catch up on all our films along with more than a thousand radio programmes in our online archive. just go to bbc.co.uk/witness. and next, when us forces dropped the world's first of atomic bomb onjapan at the end of the second world war, shintaro ohita was a young doctor in the japanese army. on the day the bomb fell he helped treat thousands of the injured. last night's target for the first atomic bomb was the city of hiroshima on the shores of the inland sea west of kobei. translation: i saw a mushroom cloud taking shape over the sky of hiroshima and at the top of the cloud there was this pillar of fire so i knew something terrible had happened. i was an officer, an army medic. on the 1st of august 19114 i was assigned to the hiroshima army hospital. like other cities, lots of warplanes flew over hiroshima every day but not a single bomb was dropped. i thought it was so strange, i couldn't understand why they would fly over a