Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
The world’s first nuclear attack decimated Hiroshima. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenThe world’s first nuclear attack decimated Hiroshima. He will now be portrayed in a major feature film by Takehiro Hira, whose acclaimed roles include the detective in the Netflix Japanese-British drama Giri/Haji.
- ▪The world’s first nuclear attack decimated Hiroshima.
- ▪Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenThe world’s first nuclear attack decimated Hiroshima.
- ▪He will now be portrayed in a major feature film by Takehiro Hira, whose acclaimed roles include the detective in the Netflix Japanese-British drama Giri/Haji.
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The world’s first nuclear attack decimated Hiroshima. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenThe world’s first nuclear attack decimated Hiroshima. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty ImagesBooksLost 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 filmDalya AlbergeMon 22 Jun 2026 20.00 EDTLast modified on Mon 22 Jun 2026 20.01 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleThe memoir of a man who survived the horrors of Hiroshima is to be published for the first time this summer after its discovery in a US archive.The 230-page memoir was written almost 80 years…
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