{"id":9061,"date":"2024-05-25T19:44:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T10:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2024-05-30T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T07:56:37","slug":"seigo-nishioka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/en\/seigo-nishioka\/","title":{"rendered":"Seigo Nishioka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover aligncenter is-position-center-center hyoushi\" style=\"min-height:500px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2174\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h02.jpg\" style=\"object-position:49% 48%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"49% 48%\"\/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center bottom-no medium-font shadow animated fadeIn delay-200ms slower has-white-color has-text-color\">Hiroshima: Faces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center shadow animated fadeIn delay-200ms slower has-white-color has-text-color\">Seigo Nishioka<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group animated fadeIn delay-1s\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"arrow-p usp-yohaku fuwafuwa\"><a href=\"#nishioka-01\"><div class=\"arrow\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"nishioka-01\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pc\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover mihiraki animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\" style=\"min-height:500px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1418\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2203\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01.jpg\" style=\"object-position:100% 50%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"100% 50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01-500x355.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01-1536x1089.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:10%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<p class=\"sawa2 center-box animated fadeInLeft delay-500ms slow\">August 6, 1945<br>I was in my first year of junior high school.<br><br>At 8:15 a.m. <br>A single atomic bomb was dropped onto the city of Hiroshima.<br><br>That day, my classmates had gone out to <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"This process was common carried out by cities during the war. Wooden buildings were demolished to create space in order to prevent the spread of fire that may be caused by air raids. In the areas around present-day Peace Boulevard, large-scale building demolition work was conducted to create a firebreak, dividing the north and south sides of the street. Many junior high school students were mobilized to do this work.\">work<br>pulling down buildings.<sup>*<\/sup> <\/span><br>There were 192 of them.<br>All of them died.<br><br>The Nakajima Shin-machi neighbourhood was about 600 metres from the hypocentre.<br><br>Scorched by the heat and thrown by the blast,<br>their faces were unrecognisable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image rm-yohaku sp animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1064\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01-mini.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01-mini.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01-mini-500x355.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01-mini-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-01-mini-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box sp\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"semaku-en sawa rp-yohaku hidari-moji animated fadeInLeft delay-500ms slow has-dark-gray-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:14px\">August 6, 1945<br>I was in my first year of junior high school.<br><br>At 8:15 a.m. <br>A single atomic bomb was dropped onto the city of Hiroshima.<br><br>That day, my classmates had gone out to <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"This process was common carried out by cities during the war. Wooden buildings were demolished to create space in order to prevent the spread of fire that may be caused by air raids. In the areas around present-day Peace Boulevard, large-scale building demolition work was conducted to create a firebreak, dividing the north and south sides of the street. Many junior high school students were mobilized to do this work.\">work pulling down buildings.<sup>*<\/sup> <\/span><br>There were 192 of them.<br>All of them died.<br><br>The Nakajima Shin-machi neighbourhood was about 600 metres from the hypocentre.<br><br>Scorched by the heat and thrown by the blast,<br>their faces were unrecognisable.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"nishioka-02\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gap-semai bottom-no is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:76%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pc2\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\" style=\"min-height:1111px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2034\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2205\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02.jpg\" style=\"object-position:54% 40%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"54% 40%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02-492x500.jpg 492w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02-1007x1024.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02-768x781.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02-1510x1536.jpg 1510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gap-semai is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:2%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:45%\">\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group animated fadeIn delay-200ms\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"sen semaku has-white-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:13px\">Profile<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-dan medium-font hiroku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms has-white-color has-text-color has-normal-font-size\"><strong>Seigo Nishioka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">orn on October 25, 1931, in the Minato Ward of Osaka City, Mr. Nishioka later moved to the Nishi-Hakushima-cho. Including his parents and two older brothers, he was the youngest of three children in a family of five. Despite the hardships of life during wartime, his life was filled with the love and affection of his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">In 1945, Mr. Nishioka enrolled at Hiroshima Prefectural Technical School (now called Hiroshima Prefectural Hiroshima Technical High School). On August 6, he was not feeling well, so he took the day off from his work demolishing buildings in the Nakajima Shin-machi district of the Naka Ward, about 600 metres from the hypocentre. Instead, Mr. Nishioka headed to his school in Senda-machi (about 2 km from the hypocentre) to do some work there. Little did he know that his fate was at a crossroads. As he entered the school gates, he heard the faint roar of a B-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\u201cI thought, that\u2019s strange, the air raid warning had been lifted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">Every one of his classmates who had gone to work demolishing buildings that day died. Mr. Nishioka himself suffered injuries and burns to his face and body. Initially, he went to a relief camp at Koryo Junior High School before moving to a camp in Sakamura on August 9. On August 15, he arrived at a relative\u2019s house at his father\u2019s hometown on Ikuchi-jima Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\u201cBlood had soaked through the bandages wrapped around my entire head and maggots crawled out of the wound. The people around me avoided me,\u201d he said. His family and relatives, who had been told that all the first-year students in his class had died, said that they thought he was a ghost when they first saw him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">With the generous and kind nursing care that he received from his relatives, Mr. Nishioka gradually recovered. While living a difficult life in his mother\u2019s childhood home, he obtained a scholarship to continue his studies. Upon entering the workforce, he pursued a career in design and power plant work. Amid his 35 years of work, he married and had two children. He has suffered from various illnesses such as acute pancreatitis, liver damage, inflammation of the gallbladder, and intestinal obstruction, all for which he has been in and out of the hospital repeatedly for surgeries. He has also produced a <em>kamishibai <\/em>story titled, \u201cA Thirteen-year-old Boy\u2019s A-Bomb Experience.\u201d From 2019, Mr. Nishioka\u2019s story, along with the clothes he was wearing at the time of the bombing, has been displayed in the newly renovated East Wing of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-no semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">Although he lives happily, surrounded by his two sons, their wives and his five grandchildren, he has never forgotten his friends and the citizens of Hiroshima who came to such a cruel end at the hands of the atomic bombing. He continues his activities to pass on his experiences of the war and the atomic bombing to the next generation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:58%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image sp2 animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2034\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02-492x500.jpg 492w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02-1007x1024.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02-768x781.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-02-1510x1536.jpg 1510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sp2  animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku sen2 semaku \" style=\"font-size:13px\">Profile<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sp2\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku bottom-dan medium-font hiroku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms has-normal-font-size\"><strong><strong>Seigo Nishiok<\/strong>a<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sp2\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">Born on October 25, 1931, in the Minato Ward of Osaka City, Mr. Nishioka later moved to the Nishi-Hakushima-cho. Including his parents and two older brothers, he was the youngest of three children in a family of five. Despite the hardships of life during wartime, his life was filled with the love and affection of his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">In 1945, Mr. Nishioka enrolled at Hiroshima Prefectural Technical School (now called Hiroshima Prefectural Hiroshima Technical High School). On August 6, he was not feeling well, so he took the day off from his work demolishing buildings in the Nakajima Shin-machi district of the Naka Ward, about 600 metres from the hypocentre. Instead, Mr. Nishioka headed to his school in Senda Town (about 2 km from the hypocentre) to do some work there. Little did he know that his fate was at a crossroads. As he entered the school gates, he heard the faint roar of a B-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\u201cI thought, that\u2019s strange, the air raid warning had been lifted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">Every one of his classmates who had gone to work demolishing buildings that day died. Mr. Nishioka himself suffered injuries and burns to his face and body. Initially, he went to a relief camp at Koryo Junior High School before moving to a camp in Sakamura on August 9. On August 15, he arrived at a relative\u2019s house at his father\u2019s hometown on Ikuchi-jima Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\u201cBlood had soaked through the bandages wrapped around my entire head and maggots crawled out of the wound. The people around me avoided me,\u201d he said. His family and relatives, who had been told that all the first-year students in his class had died, said that they thought he was a ghost when they first saw him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku bottom-dan semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">With the generous and kind nursing care that he received from his relatives, Mr. Nishioka gradually recovered. While living a difficult life in his mother\u2019s childhood home, he obtained a scholarship to continue his studies. Upon entering the workforce, he pursued a career in design and power plant work. Amid his 35 years of work, he married and had two children. He has suffered from various illnesses such as acute pancreatitis, liver damage, inflammation of the gallbladder, and intestinal obstruction, all for which he has been in and out of the hospital repeatedly for surgeries. He has also produced a <em>kamishibai <\/em>story titled, \u201cA Thirteen-year-old Boy\u2019s A-Bomb Experience.\u201d From 2019, Mr. Nishioka\u2019s story, along with the clothes he was wearing at the time of the bombing, has been displayed in the newly renovated East Wing of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">Although he lives happily, surrounded by his two sons, their wives and his five grandchildren, he has never forgotten his friends and the citizens of Hiroshima who came to such a cruel end at the hands of the atomic bombing. He continues his activities to pass on his experiences of the war and the atomic bombing to the next generation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-bottom bottom-no sticky is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:24%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center hidari-moji tategaki rm-yohaku usp-yohaku tategaki bottom-no animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">A single memory<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image rp-yohaku bottom-no usp-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/h2-03-2-500x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9426\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/h2-03-2-500x338.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/h2-03-2-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/h2-03-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-bottom bottom-no is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-bottom mid-box bottom-no is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji rp-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">Taken around February 1946. This picture was taken at Arakawa Photo Studio, which was established in the black market out the front of Hiroshima Station after the war. At the time, photography was a luxury, so \u201ceven a small picture made me happy,\u201d Mr. Nshioka said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"pc\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"pc bottom-no\">\u3000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"pc\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"nishioka-03\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pc\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover aligncenter mihiraki-long mihiraki animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1418\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2207\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04.jpg\" style=\"object-position:50% 50%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"50% 50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04-500x355.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04-1536x1089.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns bottom-no is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center bottom-no is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:12%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center bottom-no is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66%\">\n<p class=\"sawa2 sawa-long animated fadeInLeft delay-500ms slow\">A streak of vapor trail<br>from an airplane<br>in a blue sky\u2026<br><br>Would you think it was beautiful?<br><br>Even now,<br>when I remember the B-29,<br>I am still scared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"semaku bottom-dan animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">On April 8, 1945, Mr. Nishioka entered Hiroshima Prefectural Technical School. After the anxious but hopeful entrance ceremony, only the new students attended classes. All the upperclassmen had already been mobilized and went off to their work in munitions factories. Eventually, the first-year students were also mobilized and went off to work too. They worked jobs such as cultivating potato fields, transporting sand and soil for air raid shelters, and pulling down buildings to create firebreaks. Children as young as 12 and 13 were engaged in hard labour, fighting against heat and hunger, but still believing that Japan would win the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"semaku bottom-no animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">On August 6, Mr. Nishioka was not feeling well, so he gave up on the idea of going to work pulling down buildings and instead headed to his school for other work. It was 8:15 a.m. The site where his classmates were working was 600 metres from the hypocentre. All were killed by a single atomic bomb blast that left them in unimaginable states. Mr. Nishioka survived the bombing because, by pure chance, he did not go to do his usual work that day. In his heart, he still carries with him a sense of guilt at being the only one who survived, as well the image of his classmates, who died an untimely death with no one to care for them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:12%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column bottom-no is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image rm-yohaku sp animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1064\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04-mini.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04-mini.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04-mini-500x355.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04-mini-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-04-mini-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box sp\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji sawa animated fadeInLeft delay-500ms slow\">A streak of vapor trail<br>from an airplane<br>in a blue sky\u2026<br><br>Would you think it was beautiful?<br><br>Even now,<br>when I remember the B-29,<br>I am still scared.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sp bottom-no\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-dan sp rp-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">On April 8, 1945, Mr. Nishioka entered Hiroshima Prefectural Technical School. After the anxious but hopeful entrance ceremony, only the new students attended classes. All the upperclassmen had already been mobilized and went off to their work in munitions factories. Eventually, the first-year students were also mobilized and went off to work too. They worked jobs such as cultivating potato fields, transporting sand and soil for air raid shelters, and pulling down buildings to create firebreaks. Children as young as 12 and 13 were engaged in hard labour, fighting against heat and hunger, but still believing that Japan would win the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sp rp-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">On August 6, Mr. Nishioka was not feeling well, so he gave up on the idea of going to work pulling down buildings and instead headed to his school for other work. It was 8:15 a.m. The site where his classmates were working was 600 metres from the hypocentre. All were killed by a single atomic bomb blast that left them in unimaginable states. Mr. Nishioka survived the bombing because, by pure chance, he did not go to do his usual work that day. In his heart, he still carries with him a sense of guilt at being the only one who survived, as well the image of his classmates, who died an untimely death with no one to care for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"nishioka-04\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top bottom-no is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top bottom-no is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top pc is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:3%\">\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top bottom-no animated fadeInUp delay-200ms is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:97%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji sawa3 tategaki sp-rp-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\"><strong>Remembering my best friend, Izuo Ito<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns bottom-no gap-semai is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:43%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image rp-yohaku shadow bottom-no animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/h2-05-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9425\" style=\"width:156px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/h2-05-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/h2-05-2-374x500.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji ptop sans semaku rp-yohaku2\" style=\"font-size:14px\">My junior high school classmate, Izuo Ito.<br>Courtesy of Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:57%\">\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku usp-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">In December 1945, four months after the atomic bombing, Mr. Nishioka had recovered enough to walk. He visited the site where his classmates had all died. He called out his friend\u2019s name, \u201cIto! Ito!\u201d but there was no reply. Izuo Ito had been very skilled at the harmonica and was proud of his father, a lighthouse keeper. Four months after entering middle school, his best friend, with whom he\u2019d played together every day, became a victim of the atomic bomb. He died without ever seeing his family again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sawa3 tategaki sp-rp-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\"><strong>My granddaughter painted the devastation of the A-bomb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image shadow sp-yohaku-y  bottom-no animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-06-500x407.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-06-500x407.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-06-1024x834.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-06-768x625.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-06.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"bottom-no hidari-moji ptop sans semaku rp-yohaku2 animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\" style=\"font-size:15px\">Corpses bobbing amongst the ships in the harbour, 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji ptop sans semaku rp-yohaku2 animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Based on the testimony of Sadae Kasaoka, A-Bomb survivor<br>Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (Collection)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left rp-yohaku  animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">In 2010, Mr. Nishioka\u2019s granddaughter, Yuka, was among a group of students of the Creative Expression Course at Hiroshima Municipal Motomachi Senior High School, who interviewed hibakusha about their experiences and the horrors of the A-bomb and painted pictures of them. Yuka said that she tried to capture the hibakusha\u2019s memories of their painful past with a sense of duty to \u201cprevent such a tragedy from happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column animated fadeInUp delay-200ms is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:95%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left hidari-moji sawa3 tategaki sp-rp-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\"><strong>Preserving war experiences with a <em>kamishibai<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku  animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">Memories of the war and the atomic bombing are painful to recall. In order to pass on those memories that he had sealed inside himself to a generation that has never known war, Mr. Nishioka has written them down. He created a <em>kamishibai<\/em>, a kind of picture theatre show, called \u201cA Thirteen-year-old Boy\u2019s A-bomb Experience\u201d and which is now part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns bottom-no gap-semai is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image shadow sp-yohaku-y rp-yohaku bottom-no animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-07-500x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-07-500x368.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-07-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-07.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box sp\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji ptop sans semaku rp-yohaku2 animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\" style=\"font-size:14px\">An air-raid shelter dug into the mountains near Yaga Sation on the Geibi Line railway.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image shadow sp-yohaku-y rp-yohaku bottom-no animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-08-500x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-08-500x368.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-08-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-08.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box sp\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji ptop sans semaku rp-yohaku2 animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Mr. Nishioka and other schoolchildren worked in pairs to transport soil and sand in woven baskets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box pc\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji ptop sans semaku rp-yohaku2\" style=\"font-size:14px\">An air-raid shelter dug into the mountains near Yaga Sation on the Geibi Line railway. Mr. Nishioka and other schoolchildren worked in pairs to transport soil and sand in woven baskets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns bottom-no gap-semai is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image shadow sp-yohaku-y rp-yohaku bottom-no animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-09-500x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-09-500x368.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-09-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-09.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box sp\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji ptop sans semaku rp-yohaku2 animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\" style=\"font-size:14px\">They ate every single grain of rice in their lunches, which had soured in the heat.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image shadow sp-yohaku-y rp-yohaku bottom-no animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-10-500x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-10-500x368.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-10-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-10.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box sp\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji ptop sans semaku rp-yohaku2 animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\" style=\"font-size:14px\">They worked so hard at demolishing buildings that their faces were covered with black streaks of sweat and dust.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group mid-box pc\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"hidari-moji ptop sans semaku rp-yohaku2\" style=\"font-size:14px\">They ate every single grain of rice in their lunches, which had soured in the heat. They worked so hard at demolishing buildings that their faces were covered with black streaks of sweat and dust.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sp-rm-yohaku kadomaru animated fadeInUp delay-200ms has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fbfaf4\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"bottom-s\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku medium-font  animated fadeIn delay-200ms\">Discovering the power of the paintbrush at Auschwitz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-dan rp-yohaku sans animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">Between 1967 and 1969, Mr. Nishioka made three long trips to Poland. Among the unforgettable encounters he had and the memories that he made, there is one thing that still remains with him to this day. It is a painting he saw when he visited Auschwitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"rp-yohaku sans animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\u201cI understood instantly what had happened there,\u201d Mr. Nishioka said. \u201cI realised then that paintings transcend words.\u201d This was the begging of his efforts to express his A-bomb experience through art. With the simplistic touch that is distinctive of Mr. Nishioka\u2019s style, his paintings convey his detailed memories of the atomic bombing and the realities of what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-no has-small-font-size\">\u3000<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column pc is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:10%\">\n<p class=\"pc\">\u3000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"nishioka-05\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pc\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover aligncenter mihiraki-long is-position-center-center mihiraki animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\" style=\"min-height:5px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1418\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2215\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11.jpg\" style=\"object-position:74% 51%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"74% 51%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11-500x355.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11-1536x1089.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns bottom-no is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:2%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:48%\">\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sawa2 sawa-long animated fadeInLeft delay-500ms slow\">I have needed an ambulance four times and been in and out of the hospital for surgeries.<br>Acute pancreatitis, liver damage, inflammation of the gallbladder, intestinal obstruction.<br>There will be more to come.<br><br>The doctor said,<br>\u201cI don\u2019t exactly know if it\u2019s related to the atomic bomb,<br>But for some reason, hibakusha tend to suffer from internal diseases like this.\u201d<br><br>One person said,<br>\u201cHibakusha don\u2019t have to pay for medical treatment, so they go straight to hospital.\u201d<br><br>My cousin used to receive <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Health care allowance: An allowance is paid to A-bomb survivors who suffer from any of the designated 11 disabling illnesses (except in the cases where those conditions were clearly not caused by the effects of radiation from the atomic bomb).\">a health care allowance<sup>*<\/sup> <\/span> from the government,<br>But his neighbour criticised him, calling him a \u201ctax cheat\u201d<br>So, he cancelled the payments.<br><br>Hibakusha did not choose to be exposed to the atomic bombings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-s\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"semaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">The atomic bomb exploded just as a young Mr. Nishioka passed through the school gate and bowed in reverence to <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Photographs of the Emperor and Empress were lent to schools by the Ministry of the Imperial Household from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.\">the portrait of the emperor.<sup>*<\/sup> <\/span> \u201cIt\u2019s hot! It\u2019s hot!\u201d he cried as he instinctively came to a stop and cowered. Then a blast came and blew him away. As he lay on his stomach on the ground, covering his eyes and ears, things clattered down around him, and roof tiles fell like rain. His legs were caught under a beam-like object, and he was unable to move. He was lucky to be rescued, but his face and hands rapidly blistered, and his left leg was stained red with blood. The school was located in Hiroshima City\u2019s Senda-machi, about 2 km from the hypocentre. The atomic bomb not only damaged the surface of Mr. Nishioka\u2019s body but is also affecting him internally as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column bottom-no is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image rm-yohaku sp animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1064\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11-mini.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11-mini.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11-mini-500x355.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11-mini-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-11-mini-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sp mid-box\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"sawa rp-yohaku hidari-moji animated fadeInLeft delay-500ms slow\">I have needed an ambulance four times and been in and out of the hospital for surgeries.<br>Acute pancreatitis, liver damage, inflammation of the gallbladder, intestinal obstruction.<br>There will be more to come.<br><br>The doctor said,<br>\u201cI don\u2019t exactly know if it\u2019s related to the atomic bomb,<br>But for some reason, hibakusha tend to suffer from internal diseases like this.\u201d<br><br>One person said,<br>\u201cHibakusha don\u2019t have to pay for medical treatment, so they go straight to hospital.\u201d<br><br>My cousin used to receive <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Health care allowance: An allowance is paid to A-bomb survivors who suffer from any of the designated 11 disabling illnesses (except in the cases where those conditions were clearly not caused by the effects of radiation from the atomic bomb).\">a health care allowance<sup>*<\/sup> <\/span> from the government,<br>But his neighbour criticised him, calling him a \u201ctax cheat\u201d<br>So, he cancelled the payments.<br><br>Hibakusha did not choose to be exposed to the atomic bombings.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sp bottom-no\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sp rp-yohaku  animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">The atomic bomb exploded just as a young Mr. Nishioka passed through the school gate and bowed in reverence to <span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Photographs of the Emperor and Empress were lent to schools by the Ministry of the Imperial Household from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.\">the portrait of the emperor.<sup>*<\/sup> <\/span> \u201cIt\u2019s hot! It\u2019s hot!\u201d he cried as he instinctively came to a stop and cowered. Then a blast came and blew him away. As he lay on his stomach on the ground, covering his eyes and ears, things clattered down around him, and roof tiles fell like rain. His legs were caught under a beam-like object, and he was unable to move. He was lucky to be rescued, but his face and hands rapidly blistered, and his left leg was stained red with blood. The school was located in Hiroshima City\u2019s Senda-machi, about 2 km from the hypocentre. The atomic bomb not only damaged the surface of Mr. Nishioka\u2019s body but is also affecting him internally as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"nishioka-06\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pc\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"aspect-ratio:unset;\" class=\"wp-block-cover bottom-no mihiraki animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1418\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2217\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12.jpg\" style=\"object-position:100% 50%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"100% 50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12-500x355.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12-1536x1089.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center bottom-no is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:70%\">\n<p class=\"sawa2 usp-yohaku animated fadeInLeft delay-500ms slow\">Nuclear power and atomic bombs.<br><br>Their origins are the same.<br><br>As someone who experienced Hiroshima<br>and was exposed to the A-bomb,<br>I was unaware.<br><br>Until that day.<br>March 11, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-s\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"semaku bottom-dan animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">Decades ago, while working at a power plant, Mr. Nishioka attended a lecture on nuclear power generation in Hiroshima city. The lecture taught that \u201cnuclear power is safe and secure, extremely inexpensive, and absolutely necessary for the future economic development of Japan.\u201d When the lecture was over, the audience gave a long, standing ovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"semaku bottom-no animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. When the incident at the Fukushima Nuclear Powerplant happened, Mr. Nishioka recalled that lecture. \u201cAt the time, everyone was convinced that nuclear power was wonderful,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t anyone realise it\u2019s true horror? Now we understand that \u2018nuclear power\u2019 and \u2018nuclear bombs\u2019 come from the same source.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:15%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full sp rm-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1064\" src=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12-mini.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12-mini.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12-mini-500x355.jpg 500w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12-mini-1024x726.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-12-mini-768x545.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group sp mid-box\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"sawa rp-yohaku hidari-moji animated fadeInLeft delay-500ms slow\">Nuclear power and atomic bombs.<br><br>Their origins are the same.<br><br>As someone who experienced Hiroshima<br>and was exposed to the A-bomb,<br>I was unaware.<br><br>Until that day.<br>March 11, 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sp bottom-no\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bottom-dan sp rp-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">Decades ago, while working at a power plant, Mr. Nishioka attended a lecture on nuclear power generation in Hiroshima city. The lecture taught that \u201cnuclear power is safe and secure, extremely inexpensive, and absolutely necessary for the future economic development of Japan.\u201d When the lecture was over, the audience gave a long, standing ovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sp rp-yohaku animated fadeInUp delay-200ms\">On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. When the incident at the Fukushima Nuclear Powerplant happened, Mr. Nishioka recalled that lecture. \u201cAt the time, everyone was convinced that nuclear power was wonderful,\u201d he said. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t anyone realise it\u2019s true horror? Now we understand that \u2018nuclear power\u2019 and \u2018nuclear bombs\u2019 come from the same source.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sp bottom-no\">\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light has-parallax\" style=\"min-height:200px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2244 has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/h2-kinpaku.jpg)\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right shadow rp-yohaku sans semaku bottom-no w-link has-text-color\" style=\"color:#e3e3e3cf;font-size:14px\">Edited and produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/ant-hiroshima.org\/en\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ant-hiroshima.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ANT-Hiroshima<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right shadow rp-yohaku sans semaku bottom-no ptop-s has-text-color\" style=\"color:#e3e3e3cf;font-size:14px\">Photography by Mari Ishiko<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right shadow rp-yohaku sans semaku bottom-no ptop-s has-text-color\" style=\"color:#e3e3e3cf;font-size:14px\">Text by Mika Goto<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right shadow rp-yohaku sans semaku bottom-no ptop-s has-text-color\" style=\"color:#e3e3e3cf;font-size:14px\">Translation by Eliza Nicoll<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right shadow rp-yohaku sans semaku bottom-no ptop-s has-text-color\" style=\"color:#e3e3e3cf;font-size:14px\">Translation edited by  Annelise Giseburt<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seigo Nishioka (born October 25, 1931)<br \/>\nA hibakusha from Hiroshima, Mr. Nishioka was exposed to the atomic bomb at age 13. All 192 of his classmates working to demolish buildings in central Hiroshima that day died in the bombing. Later in life, Mr. Nishioka realized the power of art during a visit to Auschwitz and began depicting his experience of the atomic bombing through painting. He created a kamishibai picture theater, \u201cA Thirteen-year-old Boy\u2019s A-Bomb Experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-en.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/?p=2096","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hiroshima-kao","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faces-hiroshima.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}