The mushroom cloud was observable from the hills of neighboring prefectures. Those who were outside the direct ray of the explosion may not show immediate external injuries – but often suffered and died during the day, weeks, months and years that occurred.
And people from outside the city were exposed to radiation when they tried to enter to assist the wounded.
Radiation also influenced the children who were in the uterus at the time. Common diseases related to radiation were hair loss, gum bleeding, loss of energy (“no more prefers” in Japanese) and pain, as well as life -threatening high fever.
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Generations affected
Yamanaka took about seven years to regain strength enough to lead a relatively normal life, so she barely graduated from high school. Then she was diagnosed with various blood, heart, eye and thyroid diseases, as well as low immunity – symptoms that may be associated with radiation exposure.
Her daughters also suffered. In 1977, when her eldest daughter was 19 years elderly, she had three skin cancer operations. In 1978, when her second daughter was 14 years elderly, she developed leukemia. In 1987, her third daughter suffered from unilateral ovarian excision (surgery to remove the ovary).
I interviewed my daughters, granddaughter and several other survivors of Yamanaki, starting with experience before atomic bombardment and continuing today’s.
While these interviews generally began in the official location of the Peace Peace Museum Museum Hiroshima, I also conducted walking interviews and went to places of special importance for their personal memories. I shared with them and their helpers, which I wanted to see their lives in the context, I wanted to see their lives in context.
Their trauma and suffering are taken socially. For relatively few survivors who tell their stories in public, this is due to the assist of Sturdy Local networks. Although I was initially told that I would not find survivors who wanted to share their stories, gradually more went out for the snowball effect.
Returning to the interview with Yamanak in August 2013, we traveled by car to her former EBA home, stopping in the place where she got off after a journey through the river. There, Yamanaka began a conversation with others what he survived, he switched to a bicycle. His name was Maruto-san. They attended the same primary school in the temple.