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Hiroshima Chapter One introduces the six main characters of the book, describing their activities in the minutes or hours before the explosion. On the morning of
Hiroshima Independent Study Unit Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Terror that Saved Millions The atomic bomb and it's use over the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Hiroshima 4 The biggest and bloodiest war ever fought on the face of the earth, World War II, was coming to a deadly end. The allied forces were starting to run
Hiroshima Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura - A tailor's widow living in Hiroshima. Mrs. Nakamura narrowly escapes disaster when the explosion destroys her house. She and her
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Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura - A tailor’s widow living in Hiroshima. Mrs. Nakamura narrowly escapes disaster when the explosion destroys her house. She and her three children cope with illness and radiation poisoning for years after the bomb, and she faces tremendous difficulties finding work and housing in the years after the explosion.
Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura (In-Depth Analysis)
Dr. Terufumi Sasaki - A young surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima. Dr. Sasaki treats thousands of the dying and wounded after the bomb, and eventually operates on Miss Sasaki’s fractured and infected leg. After the war, he studies radiation sickness and other effects of the bomb.
Dr. Terufumi Sasaki (In-Depth Analysis)
Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge - A German Jesuit priest living in Hiroshima. Father Kleinsorge comforts many of the dying and wounded, even as he falls prey to radiation sickness. He helps Miss Sasaki recover her will to live and eventually become a nun. In the years after the war, he becomes a Japanese citizen and takes the name Father Makoto Takakura.
Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge (In-Depth Analysis)
Toshiko Sasaki - A young clerk who works in a tin works factory. Miss Sasaki becomes trapped in the wreckage of a factory when a bookcase crashes onto her. For weeks she receives no real medical care for her leg, which is badly fractured and infected, and she remains crippled for the rest of her life. After the war, with the guidance of Father Kleinsorge, she becomes a nun, Sister Dominique Sasaki.
Toshiko Sasaki (In-Depth Analysis)
Dr. Masakazu Fujii - A physician whose clinic topples into the water when the bomb strikes. He, like other doctors in Hiroshima, is too badly injured to help anybody else. Though apparently unaffected by radiation, he falls victim to a sudden, mysterious illness years later.
Dr. Masakazu Fujii (In-Depth Analysis)
Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto - A Methodist pastor living in...
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