CHARACTERS
Who was Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto?
pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church
When was the atomic bomb dropped?
8:15, August 6, 1945
What had Toshiko Sasaki done just before the bomb dropped?
turned to talk to a friend at the next desk
Who was Dr. Masakazu Fujii?
a physician of his own private hospital
How many rivers divide Hiroshima?
seven
Who was Miss Toshiko Sasaki?
a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works
How many people were killed by the atomic bomb?
100,000
What had Dr. Terufumi Sasaki done just before the bomb dropped?
walked along the hospital corridor with blood for a Wassermann test
what did fujii do w/ sports?
golf clubs and sparked baseball mania
what were young girls forced to clear?
fire lanes
Who was Hatsuyo Nakamura?
a tailor's widow, mother of three children
what did the japanese call the B-29 bomb?
Mr. B
What had Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge done just before the bomb dropped?
reclined in his underwear on a cot in the Society of Jesus to read a Jesuit magazine
who did fujii help?
hiroshima maidens
what comes and destroys hiroshima and house where fujii was staying?
flood
Who was Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge?
a German priest
What A-bomb died on the operating table?
Nakabayashi
What had Dr. Masakazu Fujii done just before the bomb dropped?
settled on his porch of his private hospital to read the Osaka "Asahi"
on new years eve, fujii tried to do what?
attempted to commit suicide w/ heater
what was a major problem for doctors?
lack of tools/instruments
Who was Dr. Terufumi Sasaki?
a young doctor at the Red Cross hospital
do people react when the second alarm goes off?
no
What had Hatsuyo Nakamura done just before the bomb dropped?
watched a neighbor tear down his home b/c it lay in the path of an air-raid-defense fire lane
what did fujii learn?
languages
what did tanimoto do to raise money for the peace center and hiroshima maidens?
toured U.S.