‘Everywhere there were pitifully injured people’: how a newly unearthed memoir captures the devastation of Hiroshima

In an exclusive extract from his memoir, Kiyoshi Tanimoto describes the terrifying trip across the city to locate his wife and child • ‘I didn’t want to be a victim of the bomb’: read an interview with Tanimoto’s daughter Koko Kondo Most of the people of Hiroshima had neither seen nor heard any plane. They heard no sound of explosion. They had seen only a strange flash in open daylight, or merely felt the reflection of the flash. However, there had been a tremendous explosion. The parents of ...

By Kiyoshi Tanimoto