Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film
TL;DR
- A memoir written by Hiroshima survivor Kiyoshi Tanimoto, detailing his experience of the 1945 atomic bombing, has been discovered in a US archive.
- The 230-page memoir, written almost 80 years ago, is set to be published this summer on August 6th, the anniversary of the attack.
- A major feature film adaptation of the memoir is also in pre-production, with filming scheduled for February 2027.
- Producers believe the publication and film are highly relevant given current global nuclear threats.
- Tanimoto was a Hiroshima Methodist priest whose life was spared as he was away from the city when the bomb was dropped.
- His daughter, Koko Tanimoto Kondo, wrote the foreword, emphasizing the importance of memory for human survival.
- The atomic bombing of Hiroshima killed an estimated 120,000 people in the first four days, and a subsequent bombing of Nagasaki killed about 73,000.