![]() ![]() Writer Pearl Buck called Hiroshima Diary “a book that we all ought to read in order that we may know what we have done and what will happen in the future if the atomic weapons continue to be used.”Īs people gathered at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park today to mark the anniversary, the city’s mayor called on the future president of the United States to support a worldwide ban on nuclear weapons. The diary speaks to the human heart and human condition and does so without artifice.” In his foreword, Dower says, “This is a remarkable accomplishment, for what we encounter here is an account of the end of a ferocious war that is intimately Japanese and simultaneously transcends national, cultural, and racial boundaries. On the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing, the Press issued a revised edition of Hiroshima Diary with a new foreword by John W. ![]() Amazingly, he also managed to record daily entries in a personal diary, which UNC Press published for the first time in 1955. ![]() He survived the bombing and helped to hold Hiroshima together in the aftermath. ![]() Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital at the time. The world witnessed the first wartime use of an atomic weapon on this day 63 years ago when the United States bombed Hiroshima. ![]()
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