hiroshima-shi (japan)

Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.

A book for young readers about the presidential decision to drop the atomic bomb over Japan in 1945.

Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans.

Provides an overview of the atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States that brought an end to World War II in the Pacific.

Hoping to finally end World War II the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan on August 6 1945. Three days later the U.S. dropped another massive bomb on Nagasaki Japan. The result was total devastation. Within seconds of the blasts more than 120 000 men women and children died. Thousands more would die from radiation sickness in the months to come. The war was over but the ongoing fear of nuclear destruction had begun.

"Yuriko is happy growing up in Hiroshima when it's just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living with them now, and the family is only getting bigger with talk of a double marriage! And while things are changing at home, the world beyond their doors is even more unpredictable. World War II is coming to an end, and Japan's fate is not entirely clear, with any battle losses being hidden from its people. Yuriko is used to the sirens and air raid drills, but things start to feel more real when the neighbors who have left to fight stop coming home. When the atomic bomb hits Hiroshima, it's through Yuriko's twelve-year-old eyes that we witness the devastation and horror"--Dust jacket.

Details the events leading up to and after the bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan at the end of World War II, and provides a history of these cities and their environs.

Account of the catastrophic event that heralded the coming of the atomic age.

Examines the dropping of the atomic bombs, from three different perspectives.

Interviews in America and Japan relate the experiences of the Hiroshima Maidens. Describes their memories of the blast, the extent of their disfigurement, and the effect of their plastic surgery performed in the United States.