The priests of hiroshima
Of all the important cities of Japan, only two, Kyoto and Hiroshima, had not been visited in strength by B‑san, or Mr B, as the Japanese, with a mixture of respect and unhappy familiarity, called the B‑29 and Mr Tanimoto, like all his neighbours and friends, was almost sick with anxiety. Reverend Tanimoto got up at five o'clock that morning.
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Some 100,000 people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors.
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At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on 6 August 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.Īt that same moment, Dr Masakazu Fujii was settling down cross-legged to read the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital, overhanging one of the seven deltaic rivers which divide Hiroshima Mrs Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailor's widow, stood by the window of her kitchen, watching a neighbour tearing down his house because it lay in the path of an air-raid-defence fire lane Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, reclined in his underwear on a cot on the top floor of his order's three-storey mission house, reading a Jesuit magazine Dr Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city's large, modern Red Cross Hospital, walked along one of the hospital corridors with a blood specimen in his hand and the Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, paused at the door of a rich man's house in Koi, the city's western suburb, and prepared to unload a handcart full of things he had evacuated from town in fear of the massive B‑29 raid which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer.