Title: HiroshimaBook Type: Non-FictionSummary:The book, Hiroshima, is the story of six individuals who experienced the true effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 Miss Toshinki Sasaki , an employee of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down in the plant's office and was turning to converse with the girl at the next desk when the bomb exploded. Dr. Masakazu Fujii, a doctor, was relaxing on his porch, overlooking the Kyo River, where he was reading the morning periodical when the bomb exploded. Before the eruption, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura was watching her neighbor destroy her house as part of a fire lane in preparation for an American attack. Before the attack, Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest, was lying on a cot in the mission house of the Society of Jesus and reading his Stimmen der Zeit. Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young Red Cross surgeon, was walking down the hospital corridor carrying a blood sample for a Wassermann test when he was knocked to the floor by the secretions. The pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, the Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, was about to unload a cart of clothes at a wealthy associate's home in the suburbs when lightning consumed the structure. Everyone was unaware of the explosion considering a warning siren had just sounded. After the bomb exploded, the six individuals had their own predicament to escape from. Miss Sasaki was trapped under the ceiling, books and shelves of the Eat Asia Tin Works factory. Dr. Fujii's house collapsed on him, leaving Dr. Fujii crushed between two long V-shaped beams on his chest. Fortunately, Doctor Fujii had his head sticking out of the Kyo River, but his torso and legs were in the river. Ms. Nakamura was buried in the timber, albeit lightly because she could free herself. As soon as she was emancipated, she began digging through the rubble in search of her children. Father Kleinsorge regained consciousness a few minutes after the explosion. Father Kleinsorge doesn't remember how he got out of it, but the first thing he recalls is the walk in his underwear in the mission garden. After the initial explosion, deaths and injuries were left everywhere, as the fires reduced buildings to ashes and persisted out of control, leaving the city in total chaos. Doctor Fujii, Father Kleinsorge and Mr... in the center of the paper... while the stove was on but not lit. They did everything to revive him but he remained in a coma. On January 4, he made what seemed like a remarkable recovery but lasted only a few days. Then on January 25 he lost consciousness again and for the next 11 years he lived like a vegetable. He died on January 12, 1973. Kiyoshi Tanimoto began preaching again about a year after the bombing. He did it with four other Protestant ministers on a stage where houses once stood. Since there were no buildings, he quickly realized how futile his efforts were. He attempted to restore the town's church but funds and supplies were limited. In October 1948 he left for San Francisco to raise money for this new church. In the following years he returned to the United States for numerous conferences. He began making plans for a peace center. In 1955 she went with the girls to New York for plastic surgery. He was soon rushed to the West Coast for another fundraising tour. He also appeared in an episode of "This Is Your Life". Tanimoto made 3 more trips to speak in the United States in 1976, 1981 and 1982. He retired from the pulpit in 1982 when he was in his seventies..