Hachiya Michihiko

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The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, photographed from the stern of the Enola Gay
Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped

Hachiya Michihiko ( Japanese 蜂 谷 道 彦 ; * 1903 in Okayama Prefecture ; † 1980 ) was a Japanese doctor and director of the Hiroshima Teishin Byōin Hospital belonging to the Teishin-shō (Ministry of Communication) . He survived wounded the nuclear explosion of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 in the immediate vicinity of the hypocenter and led from that day until 30 September a diary.

He is one of the few Hibakusha , the survivors of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki who became internationally known. His workplace, the clinic next to the headquarters of the Ministry of News, was only 1,500 meters from the bomb's hypocenter .

The records summarized under the title "Hiroshima Diary" ( ヒ ロ シ マ 日記 , Hiroshima nikki ) first appeared in sequels in the Japanese medical journal Teishin Igaku and in 1955 were also translated into Western languages. It describes the effects of the atomic bomb explosion from the first lightning bolt and records the activities of doctors and nurses.

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  • Hiroshima Diary (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1955). ISBN 0-8078-4547-7
  • Hiroshima diary. Notes by a Japanese doctor from August 6 to September 30, 1945. Translated from the American version by Warner Wells by Arno Dohm (Freiburg im Breisgau: Hyperion-Verlag, 1955) - Warner Wells was medical advisor to the ABCC

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Hachiya is the family name, Michihiko the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hachiya, Michihiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 蜂 谷 道 彦 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese doctor and head of a hospital in Hiroshima
DATE OF BIRTH 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Okayama Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH 1980