Nagasaki

by Susan Southard

  ———. “Watashi no hibaku taikenki” [My Atomic Bomb Memory]. Unpublished speech, n.d. Copy provided by the Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace.

  ———. Interview. White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. DVD. Directed by Steven Okazaki. HBO Documentary Films, 2007.

  Okuma, Takashi. “Nagasaki noto [Nagasaki Notes]: Nagano Etsuko-san: born 1928.” Pts. 1–13. Asahi Shimbun, June 29, 2010–July 11, 2010.

  Roose, Diana Wickes. Teach Us to Live: Stories from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pasadena, CA: Intentional Productions, 2007. See especially pp. 77–87.

  TANIGUCHI SUMITERU

  “Kurushimi no bokyaku osoreru/kaku, ningen to kyozon dekinu: Taniguchi-san enzetsu zenbun” [Fear That the Suffering Will Be Forgotten/Nuclear and Humans Cannot Coexist: Mr. Taniguchi’s speech in its entirety]. Asahi Shimbun, May 12, 2010.

  “Genshi bakudan ketsuryo nisshi [Complete Daily Atomic Bomb Record for] Taniguchi Sumiteru. Omura National Hospital. November 1, 1945–March 20, 1949.” Unpublished medical record. Translated (from German to Japanese) by Asao Manabu, March 2006. Copy provided by Taniguchi Sumiteru.

  “Mr. Sumiteru Taniguchi.” Testimony no. 2 and no. 3, Nagasaki and Peace: Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors, Nagasaki Broadcasting Company. Excerpts from interviews originally broadcast December 1968–October 1986. Translated by Geoff Neill. http://www2.nbc-nagasaki.co.jp/peace/.

  Taniguchi, Sumiteru. Interview. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Harvest of Nuclear War. VHS. Produced by Iwanami Productions. Tokyo, 1982.

  ———. Interview. Nagasaki Journey. DVD. Produced by Judy Irving and Chris Beaver. Oakland, CA: Independent Documentary Group, 1995.

  ———. Interview. People’s Century: Fallout (1945). Originally broadcast June 15, 1999. Public Broadcasting System. Transcript at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/fallout/taniguchitranscript.html.

  ———. Interview. White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, DVD. Directed by Steven Okazaki. HBO Documentary Films, 2007.

  ———. “Eternal Scars.” In Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors: A Record of the Devastation of Nagasaki, 46–48. Translated by Brian Burke-Gaffney. City of Nagasaki, 1985.

  ———. “Remembering for Twenty-Five Years: The Heat Rays That Burned a 16-Year-Old Back.” In The Light of Morning: Memoirs of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors, 89–96. Nagasaki: Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall, 2005.

  ———. “A Survivor’s Responsibility.” In Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 113–19. Translated by Gaynor Sekimori. Tokyo: Kohei Publishing Co., 1986.

  ———. “Twenty-Five Years Later: Memories and Evidence.” In Give Me Water: Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 52–54. Translated by Rinjiro Sodei. Tokyo: A Citizens’ Group to Convey Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1972.

  ———. Unpublished speech. U.S. speaking tour representing Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations). Washington, DC, 1986.

  ———. “The Whole Surface of My Back Was Burnt.” In Voices of the A-Bomb Survivors: Nagasaki, edited by the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Testimonial Society, 86–91. Nagasaki: Showado Printing Co., 2009.

  Townsend, Peter. The Postman of Nagasaki: The Story of a Survivor. London: Collins, 1984.

  WADA KOICHI

  Nakamura, Keiko. “Hamaguchimachi Stop (Nagasaki): Streetcar Shows Spirit of Nagasaki.” Daily Yomiuri Online, n.d., ca. 2005. Accessed August 2008. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/.

  Wada, Koichi. Interview. The Last Atomic Bomb. Directed by Robert Richter. New Day Films, 2006. Online streaming: http://www.newdaydigital.com/The-Last-Atomic-Bomb.html.

  ———. Interview. The Children of Nagasaki. DVD. Produced by Nippon Eiga Shinsha, Ltd. City of Nagasaki, March 2005.

  ———. “A Monument to 11:02 a.m.” In “Peace and Atomic Bomb: Atomic Bomb Survivors, Narratives of A-Bomb Experience.” Nagasaki City: Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, 2009. http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/peace/english/survivors/koichi_wada.html.

  ———. “Nagasaki.” In Genbaku ju roku nen no koe [Sixty Years of Voices: Stories of the A-Bomb Survivors], edited by Imaishi Motohisa, translated by Christopher Cruz, 58–66. Hiroshima: Printed by author, 2005.

  ———. “There Was No ‘War-End’ in Nagasaki.” Unpublished excerpt from “Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1988,” based on an interview conducted by the Nagasaki Testimony Seminar, group 3, n.d. Translated by the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.

  YOSHIDA KATSUJI

  Krakauer, Jon. “The Forgotten Ground Zero—Nagasaki, Reduced to Ashes by an Atomic Bomb, Rises Again in Beauty, Grace and Good Will,” Seattle Times, March 5, 1995. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19950305&slug=2108264.

  “Nyusu Nagasaki Eye [Nagasaki Eye News] No. 610.” In No More Hibakusha. NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai [Japan Broadcasting Corporation]), n.d. Accessed 2011. http://www.nhk.or.jp/no-more-hibakusha/hibakukoe/nagasaki005.html.

  Okuma, Takashi. “Nagasaki noto [Nagasaki Notes]: Yoshida Katsuji.” Pts. 1–19, Asahi Shimbun, August 5, 2010–August 24, 2010.

  Yoshida, Katsuji. “I Must Not Die.” Unpublished excerpt from Mou, iya da! [We’ve Had Enough!], vol. 1, n.d. Translated by the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.

  ———. Interview. White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. DVD. Directed by Steven Okazaki. HBO Documentary Films, 2007.

  ———. Interview with Jerome McDonnell. “Nagasaki: A Survivor’s Story.” In Worldview. Translated by Geoff Neill. Chicago Public Radio, May 31, 2005. http://www.wbez.org/.

  ———. Interview with Watanabe Kuniko and Omoto Akiko. Produced by ANT-Hiroshima. DVD. February 18, 2009.

  ———. Interview. “Zenshin yakedo de seishi no saki wo samayo” [Lost on the Border between Life and Death with Whole-Body Burns]. NHK News broadcast, 2007.

  ———. Interview. “Atomic Bomb Survivor.” DVD. The History Channel, n.d. [2009?]. Copy provided by Yoshida Katsuji.

  II. ADDITIONAL NAGASAKI HIBAKUSHA SOURCES

  Hibakusha Interviews

  Akizuki Sugako (Dr. Akizuki Tatsuichiro’s wife)

  Anonymous (name withheld by request)

  Fukahori Yoshitoshi

  Hamasaki Hitoshi

  Hirose Masahito

  Matsuzoe Hiroshi

  Miyazaki Midori

  Shimohira Sakue

  Uchida Tsukasa

  Interviews and Conversations with Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Specialists and Researchers

  (Titles at time of interview)

  Akahoshi Masazumi, M.D., cardiologist and director, Department of Clinical Studies, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Nagasaki

  Brian Burke-Gaffney, professor, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science

  Fukushima Masako, Master File Section, Epidemiology Department, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Nagasaki

  Hashimoto Fujiko, administrator, Nagasaki University Atomic Bomb Disease Institute

  Kinoshita Hirohisa, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nagasaki University Hospital of Medicine and Dentistry

  Koshimoto Rika, M.A., psychologist, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

  Matsuo Ranko, assistant section chief, Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace

  Mori Hideki, M.D., Ph.D., vice president, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital

  Nakashima Seiji, social worker, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital

  Geoff Neill, translator, Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

  Sakata Toshihiro, vice principal, Shiroyama Elementary School

  Taira Mitsuyoshi, director, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

  Takagi Rumiko, researcher,
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

  Tomonaga Masao, director, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Hospital

  Tsutsumi Fusayo, director, Megumi no Oka (Hill of Grace, Nagasaki A-Bomb Home)

  Unpublished English Translations of Hibakusha Testimonies

  The Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace provided twenty-seven hibakusha testimonies and three testimony compilations, translated into English and printed by the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.

  Published Memoirs and Testimony Collections

  Abe, Kazue. Bearing a Small Cross. Japan: Kazue Inoue, 1995.

  Akizuki, Tatsuichiro. Nagasaki 1945: The First Full-Length Eyewitness Account of the Atomic Bomb Attack on Nagasaki. Translated by Keiichi Nagata. Edited by Gordon Honeycombe. London: Quartet Books, 1981.

  Bernstein, Michie Hattori. “Eyewitness to the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Blast.” WWII Magazine, July/August 2005. Published on historynet.com, June 12, 2006. http://www.historynet.com/michie-hattori-eyewitness-to-the-nagasaki-atomic-bomb-blast.htm.

  Burke-Gaffney, Brian. “In the Words of an Atomic Bomb Survivor.” Crossroads: A Journal of Nagasaki History and Culture 3 (Summer 1995): 37–42. http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/earns/sakue.html.

  The Deaths of Hibakusha, Vol. I: The Days of the Bombings to the End of 1945. Translated by the English Translation Group of “The Witness of Those Two Days.” Tokyo: Nihon Hidankyo, 1991.

  The Deaths of Hibakusha, Vol. II: Forty Years Since 1946. Translated by the English Translation Group of “The Witness of Those Two Days.” Tokyo: Nihon Hidankyo, 1995.

  Del Tredici, Robert. “Tsue Hayashi.” In At Work in the Fields of the Bomb, 189–91. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

  Fujisaki, Shinji, compiler. Burnt Yet Undaunted: Verbatim Account of Senji Yamaguchi. Tokyo: Nihon Hidankyo, 2002.

  Give Me Water: Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Translated by Rinjiro Sodei. Tokyo: A Citizens’ Group to Convey Testimonies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1972.

  Hand Them Down to the Next Generations! Here Are Live Voices of Atomic Bomb Victims, Vol. I. Fukuoka, Japan: FCO-OP, 1995.

  Hashimoto, Yutaka. “Mom and Silver Rice: Boyhood Reminiscences of the End of the War and Occupied Nagasaki.” Translated by Brendon Hanna. Crossroads: A Journal of Nagasaki History and Culture 4 (Summer 1996): 53–68. http://www.uwosh.edu/home_pages/faculty_staff/earns/silver.html.

  Hibakusha: Hiroshima/Nagasaki. Tokyo: Nihon Hidankyo, 1982.

  Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Translated by Gaynor Sekimori. Tokyo: Kohei Publishing Co., 1986.

  Hiroshima/Nagasaki: After the Atomic Bomb, Vol. IV: Selected Haikus. Translated by Kemmoku Makato and Christopher Cliplef. Kobe, Japan: Kinoshita Press, 2006.

  Hiroshima/Nagasaki: After the Atomic Bomb, Vol. V: Elegy for Nagasaki: 124 Tankas of Takami Oyama. Translated by Kemmoku Makato. Kobe, Japan: Kinoshita Press, 2006.

  Ishitani, Susumu. “Looking for Meaning.” Friends Journal: 1945–95 Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki 41:8 (August 1995): 8–9.

  Kamezawa, Miyuki, ed. The Unforgettable Day: Cries of “Hibakusha” from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 3rd ed. Nagoya, Japan: Group for Spreading Out “The Unforgettable Day” Over the World, 1995.

  Kido, Sueichi. “I Desire to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.” Pamphlet. Nihon Hidankyo, May 2010.

  Kobayashi, Shigeyuki, with Conan O’Harrow. War and Atomic Holocaust on Trial: Seeking an Enactment of a Law to Give Support to the Victims of the Atomic Bombings. Tokyo: Conference for the People of Setagaya, n.d. Copy provided by the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Library.

  Kubo, Mitsue. Hibaku: Recollections of A-Bomb Survivors. Translated by Ryoji Inoue. Coquitlam, B.C., Canada: Nippon Printing, 1990.

  The Light of Morning: Memoirs of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors. Translated by Brian Burke-Gaffney. Nagasaki: Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, 2005.

  “Messages from Hibakusha for the 2010 NPT Review Conference.” Tokyo: Nihon Hidankyo, 2009.

  Nagai, Takashi. Atomic Bomb Rescue and Relief Report. Edited by Fidelius R. Kuo. Translated by Aloysius F. Kuo. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Association for Hibakushas’ Medical Care, 2000.

  ———. The Bells of Nagasaki: A Message of Hope from a Witness, a Doctor. Translated by William Johnston. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1984.

  ———, ed. Living Beneath the Atomic Cloud: Testimonies of the Children of Nagasaki. Compiled by Frank Zenisek. Translated by the Nagasaki Appeal Committee Volunteer Group. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Appeal Committee, 1985.

  ———. We of Nagasaki: The Story of Survivors in an Atomic Wasteland. Translated by Ichiro Shirato and Herbert B. L. Silverman. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1951.

  Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Testimonial Society. Voices of the A-Bomb Survivors: Nagasaki. Foreword by Masahito Hirose. Nagasaki: Showado Printing Co., 2009.

  Nagasaki Prefectural Girls’ High School 42nd Alumnae, ed. Footprints of Nagasaki: Excerpt from “Anohi Anotoki.” Translated by Yuriko Kitamura. Nagasaki: Seibonokishi-sha, 1995.

  Nagatsu, Kozaburo, Hisao Suzuki, and Toshio Yamamoto, eds. Against Nuclear Weapons: A Collection of Poems by 181 Poets 1945–2007. Translated by Naoshi Koriyama et al. Tokyo: Koru Sakkusha, 2007.

  Nakano, Michiko, ed. Nagasaki Under the Atomic Bomb: Experiences of Young College Girls. Tokyo: Soeisha/Sanseido Bookstore Ltd., 2000.

  Nobuko, Margaret Kosuge. “Prompt and Utter Destruction: The Nagasaki Disaster and the Initial Medical Relief.” International Review of the Red Cross 89:866 (June 2007): 279–303.

  Our Parents Were in Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Teachers’ Association of Children of Atomic Bomb Survivors, 1988.

  The Pain in Our Hearts: Recollections of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Okinawa. Tokyo: Soka Gakkai, Youth Division, 1975.

  Roose, Diana Wickes. Teach Us to Live: Stories from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pasadena, CA: Intentional Productions, 2007.

  Selden, Kyoko, and Mark Selden. The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. London: East Gate Books, 1989.

  Shiotsuki, Masao. Doctor at Nagasaki: “My First Assignment Was Mercy Killing.” Translated by Simul International. Tokyo: Kosei Publishing Co., 1987.

  Shirabe, Raisuke. “Medical Survey of Atomic Bomb Casualties.” The Military Surgeon 113:4 (Oct. 1953): 251–263.

  ———. “My Experience of the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing and an Outline of the Damages Caused by the Explosion.” 1986. Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Accessed 2012. http://www-sdc.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/abcenter/shirabe/index_e.html.

  ———. A Physician’s Diary of Atomic Bombing and Its Aftermath. Edited by Fidelius R. Kuo. Translated by Aloysius F. Kuo. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Association for Hibakushas’ Medical Care, 2002.

  Silent Thunder: From the Book “Te yo katare” (Let These Hands Speak). Translated by Brian Burke-Gaffney. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Prefectural Association for the Welfare of the Deaf and Dumb, Nagasaki Branch of the Japanese Study Group of Sign Language Problems, 1976.

  Soka Gakkai, Youth Division, ed. Cries for Peace: Experiences of Japanese Victims of World War II. Tokyo: Japan Times, 1978.

  Speaking of Peace I: Something We Want You to Know. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Foundation for the Promotion of Peace, 1990.

  Testimonies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 3rd ed. Kanagawa, Japan: Zushi Atomic Bomb Sufferers Association, 1995.

  Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors: A Record of the Devastation of Nagasaki. Translated by Brian Burke-Gaffney. City of Nagasaki, 1985.

  Trumbull, Robert. Nine Who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Personal Experiences of Nine Men Who Lived Through the Atomic Bombings. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1957.

  Vance-Watkins, Lequita, and Mariko Aratani, eds. White Flash/Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb. Minneapolis, M
N: Milkweed Editions, 1995.

  Wasurerarenai anohi: The Day Never to Be Forgotten: A Collection of Testimonies and Pictures. Yokohama, Japan: Kanagawa Atomic Bomb Sufferers Association, 2005.

  Wiesen, Mary, and Elizabeth Cannon, eds. Nagasaki August 9, 1945. Translated by Junshin Junior College English Club. Nagasaki: Junshin Junior College English Club, 1983.

  The Witness of Those Two Days: Hiroshima & Nagasaki, August 6 & 9, 1945. 2 vols. Translated by the English Translation Group of “The Witness of Those Two Days.” Tokyo: Nihon Hidankyo, 1989.

  Yamashita, Akiko. Natsugumo no oka: Hibaku ishi Akizuki Tatsuichiro [Hill Under the Summer Cloud: Atomic Bomb Physician Akizuki Tatsuichiro]. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Shimbunsha, 2006.

  Yasuyama, Kodo. Collection of Memoirs of the Atomic Bombardment of Nagasaki 1945–55. Edited by Shunichi Yamashita. Nagasaki: Nagasaki Association for Hibakushas’ Medical Care, 2005.

  Internet Collections

  “Global Network.” The National Peace Memorial Halls for the Atomic Bomb Victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. February 2010. http://www.global-peace.go.jp/en/.

  “Hibakusha: Atomic Bomb Survivors.” United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs. 2014. http://www.un.org/disarmament/content/slideshow/hibakusha/.

  “Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Messages from Hibakusha.” Asahi Shimbun. September 2011. http://www.asahi.com/hibakusha/english/nagasaki/.

  “My Unforgettable Memory: Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors.” Nagasaki Shimbun. Translated by Seiun High School. 2005. http://www.nagasaki-np.co.jp/peace/hibaku/english/index.html.

  “Nagasaki and Peace: Testimonies of the Atomic Bomb Survivors.” Nagasaki Broadcasting Company. Excerpts of the radio program “Speaking of the Atomic Bomb” aired since the fall of 1968. Accessed 2008. http://www2.nbc-nagasaki.co.jp/peace/.

  “Peace and Atomic Bomb—Atomic Bomb Survivors.” Nagasaki City. 2009. http://www.city.nagasaki.lg.jp/peace/english/survivors/index.html.

  Pictorial Works

  Asahi Graph. Special Issue. Asahi Shimbun, July 10, 1970.

  Goldstein, Donald M., Katherine V. Dillon, and J. Michael Wenger. Rain of Ruin: A Photographic History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 1999.