HIROSHIMA by John Hersey / Storytelling

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Podcast HIROSHIMA by John Hersey / Storytelling

HIROSHIMA is a book written by an American journalist John Hersey, documented six survivors who experienced the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan. This reportage is precisely illustrating the people’s perspectives and perceptions who were on the ground at that time. On this Podcast, 6 artists from Japan and UK. will read the simultaneous stories of 6 survivors. Readers Junya Ishii, Noriko Okaku, Hisashi Yamauchi, Jon Bonnici, Koichi Yamanoha, Sayaka Botanic Music: Koichi Ymnha Produce: Junya Ishii Special Thanx: Koko Kondo, The Tanimoto Peace Foundation, Sam LaBonte

Episódios

  1. Chapter 1. / 7 / Ms. Toshiko Sasaki / read by Sayaka Botanic

    03/04/2021

    Chapter 1. / 7 / Ms. Toshiko Sasaki / read by Sayaka Botanic

    Miss Toshiko Sasaki, the East Asia Tin Works clerk, who is not related to Dr. Sasaki, got up at three o’clock in the morning on the day the bomb fell. There was extra housework to do. Her eleven-month-old brother, Akio, had come down the day before with a serious stomach upset; her mother had taken him to the Tamura Pediatric Hospital and was staying there with him. Miss Sasaki, who was about twenty, had to cook breakfast for her father, a brother, a sister, and herself, and—since the hospital, because of the war, was unable to provide food—to prepare a whole day’s meals for her mother and the baby, in time for her father, who worked in a factory making rubber earplugs for artillery crews, to take the food by on his way to the plant.... read by Sayaka Botanic

    5min
  2. Chapter 1. / 6 / Dr. Terafumi Sasaki / read by Koichi Ymnha

    03/04/2021

    Chapter 1. / 6 / Dr. Terafumi Sasaki / read by Koichi Ymnha

    On the train on the way into Hiroshima from the country, where he lived with his mother, Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, the Red Cross Hospital surgeon, thought over an unpleasant nightmare he had had the night before. His mother’s home was in Mukaihara, thirty miles from the city, and it took him two hours by train and tram to reach the hospital. He had slept uneasily all night and had wakened an hour earlier than usual, and, feeling sluggish and slightly feverish, had debated whether to go to the hospital at all; his sense of duty finally forced him to go, and he had started out on an earlier train than he took most mornings. The dream had particularly frightened him because it was so closely associated, on the surface at least, with a disturbing actuality.....

    5min
  3. Chapter 1. / 5 / Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge / read by Jon Bonnici

    03/04/2021

    Chapter 1. / 5 / Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge / read by Jon Bonnici

    Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, of the Society of Jesus, was, on the morning of the explosion, in rather frail condition. The Japanese wartime diet had not sustained him, and he felt the strain of being a foreigner in an increasingly xenophobic Japan; even a German, since the defeat of the Fatherland, was unpopular. Father Kleinsorge had, at thirty-eight, the look of a boy growing too fast—thin in the face, with a prominent Adam’s apple, a hollow chest, dangling hands, big feet. He walked clumsily, leaning forward a little. He was tired all the time. To make matters worse, he had suffered for two days, along with Father Cieslik, a fellow-priest, from a rather painful and urgent diarrhea, which they blamed on the beans and black ration bread they were obliged to eat. Two other priests then living in the mission compound, which was in the Nobori-cho section—Father Superior LaSalle and Father Schiffer—had happily escaped this affliction.... Read by Jon Bonnici Music by Koichi Ymnha

    5min
  4. Chapter 1. / 4 / Dr. Masakazu Fujii / read by Hisashi Yamauchi

    03/04/2021

    Chapter 1. / 4 / Dr. Masakazu Fujii / read by Hisashi Yamauchi

    In the days right before the bombing, Dr. Masakazu Fujii, being prosperous, hedonistic, and, at the time, not too busy, had been allowing himself the luxury of sleeping until nine or nine-thirty, but fortunately he had to get up early the morning the bomb was dropped to see a house guest off on a train. He rose at six, and half an hour later walked with his friend to the station, not far away, across two of the rivers. He was back home by seven, just as the siren sounded its sustained warning. He ate breakfast and then, because the morning was already hot, undressed down to his underwear and went out on the porch to read the paper. This porch—in fact, the whole building—was curiously constructed. Dr. Fujii was the proprietor of a peculiarly Japanese institution, a private, single-doctor hospital..... Read by Hisashi Yamauchi Music by Koichi Ymnha

    7min
  5. Chapter 1. / 3 / Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura / read by Noriko Okaku

    03/04/2021

    Chapter 1. / 3 / Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura / read by Noriko Okaku

    At nearly midnight, the night before the bomb was dropped, an announcer on the city’s radio station said that about two hundred B-29s were approaching southern Honshu and advised the population of Hiroshima to evacuate to their designated “safe areas.” Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, the tailor’s widow, who lived in the section called Nobori-cho and who had long had a habit of doing as she was told, got her three children—a ten-year-old boy, Toshio, an eight-year-old girl, Yaeko, and a five-year-old girl, Myeko—out of bed and dressed them and walked with them to the military area known as the East Parade Ground, on the northeast edge of the city. There she unrolled some mats and the children lay down on them. They slept until about two, when they were awakened by the roar of the planes going over Hiroshima.... Read by Noriko Okaku Music by Koichi Ymnha

    7min
  6. Chapter 1. / 2 / Kiyoshi Tanimoto / read by Junya Ishii

    03/04/2021

    Chapter 1. / 2 / Kiyoshi Tanimoto / read by Junya Ishii

    The Reverend Mr. Tanimoto got up at five o’clock that morning. He was alone in the parsonage, because for some time his wife had been commuting with their year-old baby to spend nights with a friend in Ushida, a suburb to the north. Of all the important cities of Japan, only two, Kyoto and Hiroshima, had not been visited in strength by B-san, or Mr. B, as the Japanese, with a mixture of respect and unhappy familiarity, called the B-29; and Mr. Tanimoto, like all his neighbors and friends, was almost sick with anxiety. He had heard uncomfortably detailed accounts of mass raids on Kure, Iwakuni, Tokuyama, and other nearby towns; he was sure Hiroshima’s turn would come soon. He had slept badly the night before, because there had been several air-raid warnings. Hiroshima had been getting such warnings almost every night for weeks, for at that time the B-29s were using Lake Biwa, northeast of Hiroshima, as a rendezvous point, and no matter what city the Americans planned to hit, the Super-fortresses streamed in over the coast near Hiroshima. The frequency of the warnings and the continued abstinence of Mr. B with respect to Hiroshima had made its citizens jittery; a rumor was going around that the Americans were saving something special for the city.... Read by Junya Ishii Music by Koichi Ymnha

    12min
  7. Chapter 1. / 1 / A Noiseless Flash

    03/04/2021

    Chapter 1. / 1 / A Noiseless Flash

    "A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition—a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one streetcar instead of the next—that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time, none of them knew anything." Since this reportage was issued in New Yorker in August 31st 1946, millions all over the world began to understand what really happened at the time the bomb fell, and how they reacted and what they witnessed afterward. As the editors who decided this edition to be devoted entirely to just one article said, "in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and that everyone might well take time to consider the terrible implications of its use", it is possible to say that “Hiroshima” is still relevant as we take glance at current world. Read by Sayaka Botanic, Noriko Okaku, Hisashi Yamauchi, Jon Bonnici, Koichi Ymnha, Junya Ishii

    3min
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HIROSHIMA is a book written by an American journalist John Hersey, documented six survivors who experienced the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945, in Hiroshima, Japan. This reportage is precisely illustrating the people’s perspectives and perceptions who were on the ground at that time. On this Podcast, 6 artists from Japan and UK. will read the simultaneous stories of 6 survivors. Readers Junya Ishii, Noriko Okaku, Hisashi Yamauchi, Jon Bonnici, Koichi Yamanoha, Sayaka Botanic Music: Koichi Ymnha Produce: Junya Ishii Special Thanx: Koko Kondo, The Tanimoto Peace Foundation, Sam LaBonte

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