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Hiroshima is a 1946 book by American author John Hersey. It tells the stories of six survivors of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima . It is regarded as one of the earliest examples of New Journalism , in which the story-telling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reporting.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto (谷本 清, Tanimoto Kiyoshi, June 27, 1909 – September 28, 1986) was a Japanese Methodist minister famous for his humanitarian work for the Hiroshima Maidens. Tanimoto was a U.S educated Methodist minister and moved to Hiroshima with his wife during the midst of World War II.
John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. [1]
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Terufumi Sasaki (Japanese: 佐々木 輝文, Hepburn: Sasaki Terufumi) was a surgeon at the Red Cross hospital in Hiroshima and was situated 1,650 yards (1,510 m) from the hypocenter of the Little Boy explosion on August 6, 1945.
The book Hiroshima, written by Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey and originally published in article form in The New Yorker, [257] is reported to have reached Tokyo in English by January 1947, and the translated version was released in Japan in 1949.
Hiroshima: The World's Bomb. New York: Oxford University Press. Takayama, Hitoshi (1973). Hiroshima in Memoriam and Today: Hiroshima as a Testimony of Peace for Mankind. Weller, George; Weller, Anthony, eds. (2006). First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. New York: Crown.