208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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In August 1945, the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What is hardly known is that 4,000 Nisei (Japanese Americans), the sons and daughters of Japanese immigrants who had been sent back to Japan to be educated before World War II erupted, were caught in the Hiroshima bombing. This extraordinary book commemorates the 3,000 Nisei who died from the atomic blast in Hiroshima... Read more
* Introduction * From Hiroshima, Back to Hiroshima * Deathand Lifein the Desert * HiroshimaThe Target City * Heading toward the Ruined City * Nisei Coming, Nisei Going Home * Strangers in Their Own Homeland * Pieces of the Jigsaw Puzzle * The Death of the Presidents Patient * The Hibakusha Begin to Organize * Hibakusha Discovered * These People Were Our Enemies * In Search of Hibakusha * The Many Shades of the Hibakusha Experience * Ups and Downs * A Medical Team Comes and Goes * Washington Comes to Los Angeles * We Are All Hibakusha * Epilogue: Fifty Years after the Bomb
Biography
Rinjiro Sodei
