Aya Kasai, a native of Hiroshima, Japan now studying in San Francisco, talks about the upcoming performance of "Hiroshima Stories" by the Living Arts Playback Theatre troupe, Tuesday, July 26, 2005 in Oakland. "Hiroshima Stories" will be performed in Berkeley on Aug. 6, 2005, the 60th anniversary of the United States' dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Kasai is the granddaughter of a Hiroshima survivor.. (D. Ross Cameron/The Oakland Tribune)