HIROSHIMA by John Hersey / Storytelling
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Chapter 1. / 7 / Ms. Toshiko Sasaki / read by Sayaka Botanic
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Miss Toshiko Sasaki, the East Asia Tin Works clerk, who is not related to Dr. Sasaki, got up at three o’clock in the morning on the day the bomb fel...
Chapter 1. / 6 / Dr. Terafumi Sasaki / read by Koichi Ymnha
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the train on the way into Hiroshima from the country, where he lived with his mother, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, the Red Cross Hospital surgeon, thought ...
Chapter 1. / 5 / Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge / read by Jon Bonnici
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, of the Society of Jesus, was, on the morning of the explosion, in rather frail condition. The Japanese wartime diet had not...
Chapter 1. / 4 / Dr. Masakazu Fujii / read by Hisashi Yamauchi
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the days right before the bombing, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, being prosperous, hedonistic, and, at the time, not too busy, had been allowing himself the ...
Chapter 1. / 3 / Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura / read by Noriko Okaku
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At nearly midnight, the night before the bomb was dropped, an announcer on the city’s radio station said that about two hundred B-29s were approachi...
Chapter 1. / 2 / Kiyoshi Tanimoto / read by Junya Ishii
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Reverend Mr. Tanimoto got up at five o’clock that morning. He was alone in the parsonage, because for some time his wife had been commuting with...
Chapter 1. / 1 / A Noiseless Flash
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many other...