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'Chokubaku' means that the person was exposed to the A-bomb directly in Hiroshima or Nagasaki when the bomb was dropped.
- Katsue Jitsumoto (male)
'Chokubaku' 4 km from the hypocenter
- I still remember the eeriness of the piles of burning bodies, the smoke and the stench.
- Matsue Kanzaki (female)
'Chokubaku' / 16 years old at the time
- I couldn't get rid of the sight, haunted for years, and hated nights approaching.
- Masahiro Tagawa (male)
'Chokubaku' 2.6 km from the hypocenter / 6 years old at the time
- Although it wasn't night, it quickly became unusually dark, and as a child, I was very fearful that something terrible had happened.
- Sumikazu Kanayama (male)
'Chokubaku' 4.5 km from the hypocenter / 13 years old at the time
- To this day, I can't say how many of my teachers and classmates died because of the atomic bomb.
- Mikie Ushida (female)
'Chokubaku' 3.4 km from the hypocenter / 16 years old at the time
- Seven neighbors were killed within a radius of ten meters [about 33 feet, or 11 yard] from my house.
- Takayuki Araki (male)
'Chokubaku' 3 km from the hypocenter / 18 years old at the time
- A train had collapsed, its passengers reduced to skeletons. It was just impossible to accept that I was really seeing such things, so atrocious was the situation.
- Etsuko Yamasaki (female)
'Chokubaku' 5 km from the hypocenter / 7 years old at the time
- Holding my sister in my arm and leading my brother by the hand, I escaped into the air-raid shelter, running barefoot over the pieces of broken glass.
- Hatsuko Okimoto (female)
'Chokubaku' / 19 years old at the time
- After I managed to wriggle my way out of the crumpled-down building, I found that everywhere I looked had been completely devastated, the factories turned into twisted metal skeletons.
- Masayo Yasumoto (female)
'Chokubaku' 4.2 km from the hypocenter / 20 years old at the time
- I noticed some round things lying around there, which were apparently heads without bodies or legs. I couldn't identify my father's head so I left there.
- Ryoichi Tabe (male)
'Chokubaku' 2.5 km from the hypocenter
- Along the Urakami River, there were probably more than ten flights of stairs to go down to the bank of the river, one about every 100 meters [109 yards], and between 100 and 200 dead bodies were piled on each flight.
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