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