personal narratives, japanese

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto was collecting, what felt like to her, rehearsed interviews from atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima until the September 11th attacks, which made the interviewees open up more, but also made the author reflect on her own life.

Follows five teens from Nagasaki, Japan, in the days, months, and years following the city's atomic bombing in World War II. Draws on a decade of interviews with survivors, historians, physicians, and specialists to illustrate the impact of nuclear war.

Details the events and aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945, based on eyewitness accounts from survivors like Tsutomu Tamaguchi, who survived ground zero in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.