The bombings: Hiroshima at O8:15 a.m. August 6, 1945,

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST

Commentary by Hank F. Miller Jr.

The blast center: Hiroshima City

At 25 meters in midair southeast of Shima Hospital at 19 Saikumachi, Cho. The death toll after the explosion, 140,000 people perished. The death toll by the atomic blast at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki has not been confirmed yet. The report to the United Nations Secretary General in 1976 said that the death toll was 140,000 in Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki.

photo: The Mushroom Cloud over Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb nicknamed \”Little Boy\”

The following are letter from a man from the Catholic Church I attend in Kuroseki, Kitakyushu City, who experienced the bombings first hand.

Letter by Mr.Atarashi Oshima

At that time I was working in Tabata, Kitakyushu city. I was a skinny kid, but was