HIROSHIMA is a book written by an American journalist John Hersey, documented six survivors who experienced the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan. This reportage is precisely illustrating the people’s perspectives and perceptions who were on the ground at that time.
On this Podcast, 6 artists from Japan and UK. will read the simultaneous stories of 6 survivors.
Readers
Junya Ishii, Noriko Okaku, Hisashi Yamauchi, Jon Bonnici, Koichi Yamanoha, Sayaka Botanic
Music: Koichi Ymnha
Produce: Junya Ishii
Special Thanx: Koko Kondo, The Tanimoto Peace Foundation, Sam LaBonte
Miss Toshiko Sasaki, the East Asia Tin Works clerk, who is not related to Dr. Sasaki, got up at three o’clock in the morning on the day the bomb fell. There was extra housework to do. Her eleven-month-old brother, Akio, had come down the day before with a serious stomach upset; her mother had...
Published 04/03/21
On the train on the way into Hiroshima from the country, where he lived with his mother, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, the Red Cross Hospital surgeon, thought over an unpleasant nightmare he had had the night before. His mother’s home was in Mukaihara, thirty miles from the city, and it took him two hours...
Published 04/03/21