Michihiko Hachiya

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

He is one of the few hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which became known internationally. His work, which located next to the headquarters of the Ministry News Clinic, was only about 1500 meters from the hypocenter of the bomb away.

The titled " Hiroshima Diary " (ヒロシマ 日記, Hiroshima nikki ) summarized records first appeared in installments in the Japanese medical journal Teishin Igaku in 1955 and translated into Western languages. It describes the effects of the nuclear explosion from the first flash of lightning, and holds the activities of physicians and nurses.

Expenditure

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