Commentary by Hank F. Miller Jr.
(cnbnews.net)August 7, 2011-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.
Letter by Mr.Atarashi Oshima,a Church member on our church in Kuroseki, Kitakyushu City.
At that time I was working in Tabata,Kitakyushu city.I was a skinny kid,but was drafted into the Army Engineering Brigade and sent to Hiroshima,in August 1945.It was a few days just before the bombing.We resided in temporary housing at an elementry school in Gion-machi, Asa-gun.
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