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Michihiko Hachiya

Japan · Hiroshima — physician's diary

About

Director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital, injured in the bombing. His diary of the following weeks, kept while treating the survivors, is a primary document of the atomic age.

Books in Database (1)

Hiroshima Diary cover
Hiroshima Diary 1955 · 238 pages

A Hiroshima physician's day-by-day journal from the morning of the bomb, written as he treated the dying while injured himself.

Memoir

Events Covered

1945 Atomic Bombings