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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]
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.
The Hiroshima Maidens (Japanese: 原爆乙女 (Genbaku Otome); lit. ' atomic bomb maidens ') were a group of 25 Japanese women who were disfigured by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and subsequently went on a highly publicized journey to obtain reconstructive surgery in the United States.
The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back and its revised second edition To Hell and Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima is a book by American author Charles R. Pellegrino and published on January 19, 2010 by Henry Holt and Company that documents life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the time immediately preceding, during and following ...
Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 or older — are planning to return to Pearl Harbor on Saturday to observe the 83rd anniversary of the attack that thrust the US into World War II.
Hiroshima's songs can still be heard throughout the community, from a ceremony dedicating a street corner in L.A.'s Sawtelle to Japanese American higher education leader Jack Fujimoto, to “Paper ...
Koko Tanimoto (Née Koko Kondo (近藤紘子, Kondō Kōko), born November 20, 1944 [1]) is a prominent atomic bomb survivor, peace activist, and the eldest of at least four children of Kiyoshi Tanimoto, [2] a Methodist minister famous for his work for the Hiroshima Maidens. [3] Both appear in John Hersey's book Hiroshima.