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"Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki--Messages from Hibakusha" includes first-hand accounts of the 1945 bombings written by A-bomb survivors. By posting online messages from hibakusha, we hope to enhance the growing global movement toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.
To that end, The Asahi Shimbun, as a leader among Japan's newspaper companies, has established this website.
For the time being, this website will be presented in Japanese only. However, eventually we hope to send out these messages translated into English. Please check back later for the English version. If you are interested in helping out with English translations, please contact us. We especially welcome inquiries from universities to work on English translations.
The documents included in this website from among the responses by more than 13,000 survivors who answered an Asahi Shimbun survey about their exposure to radiation from the bombing.
The Asahi Shimbun conducted the survey in 2005 in cooperation with the Japan Confederation of A-and H-bomb Sufferers Organizations and Hiroshima and Nagasaki universities. We asked around 3,400 survivors among the respondents of the 2005 survey to allow us to post their messages to the public or to give us new messages.
In the end, we obtained either consent or new messages from more than 1,600 A-bomb survivors. Among the topics written about, many survivors described their deceased fathers' messages to the world.
In the five years since the survey, many survivors also sent in new messages. Some survivors provided their messages to us for the first time.
This website includes these new messages received as of 2010. For all messages, we obtained consent from survivors themselves or their bereaved families to allow their words to be posted on the web. This website also includes recent articles published in The Asahi Shimbun on the subject of atomic bombs and peace.
Messages appear in two sections: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We have provided detailed information on each hibakusha, for example, their age and situation at the moment of their exposure to atomic bomb radiation.
Using the search function, you can find messages related to certain terms, such as "black rain." Also, you can find out which survivors have consented to their names appearing on the web by searching their name in the order of the Japanese syllabary.
We strongly hope you will take the time to understand the reality of the situations facing A-bomb survivors and their sincere wishes for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
