Within the spring of 1946, Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Japanese Methodist minister who had been educated in america, and Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist John Hersey got here collectively for a undertaking of dire significance — to protect the tales of those that had survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
“If you happen to can’t inform this story to the world, we’re going to die twice,” Tanimoto instructed Hersey, whose accounting was printed in The New Yorker journal on Aug. 31, 1946 — virtually a 12 months after the bombs destroyed each Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The piece was titled, “Hiroshima.”
Greater than seven a long time later, Hersey’s grandson, Cannon, made a exceptional discovery whereas digging by means of the Yale College archives: a 230-page memoir by Tanimoto and written in English, protecting the 2 years following the Hiroshima bombing.
