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Suggested Reading List


The Meaning of Survival
Atomic Bomb Material Preservation Society
Hiroshima: Chugoku Shimbun and the Hiroshima International Culture Foundation, 1983.
A documentaty of hiroshima from 1945 to 1981.
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
Coerr, Eleanor.
New York: G.P. Putnum's Sons, 1977; Kyoto: Yamaguchi Shoten, 1984.
A true story of a girl who survived the bombing but died of leukemia at age 12.
The Impact of the A-bomb
Committee for the Compilation of Materials on Damage Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishers, 1985.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Physical, Medical and Social Effects of the Atomic Bombings.
Condensed, popular edition
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten; New York: Basic Books; and London: Hutchinson, 1981.
Hiroshima
Hersey, John.
New York: Alfred P. Knopf, 1946.
The first report by an American journalist.
Black Rain.
Ibuse, Masuji.
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1969.
An award-winning literary work.
Hiroshima Peace Reader.
Kosakai, Yoshimitsu.
Hiroshima: Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, 1980.
Death in Life
Lifton, robert, J.
New York: Random House, 1967.
Pioneer studies of A-bomb survivors by an American psychiatrist.
Barefoot Gen
Nakazawa, Keiji.
Tokyo: Sanyusha Shuppan, 1979.
A comic book based on the author's experience.
Atomic Aftermath.
Oe, Kenzaburo, ed.
Tokyo: Shueisha, 1984.
An anthology of short stories by professional and amateur writers.
Hiroshima Notes.
Oe, Kenzaburo.
Tokyo: YMCA Press, 1981.
Best-selling collection of essays written in the years 1963-65 by an award-winning novelist.
Children of the A-bomb.
Osada Arata, ed.
Ann Arbor, MI: Midwest Publishers International, 1982.
105 accounts by the children of Hiroshima.
The Legacy of Hiroshima: Its Past, Our Future.
Shono, Naomi.
Tokyo: Kosei Publishing Co., 1986.
A thoughtful critique of nuclear catastrophe by a physicist.
Culture prize
Hiroshima Poems.
Toge, Sankichi.
Tokyo: Sanyusha Shuppan, 1980.
Written by a leading poet before his death in 1953.
Unforgettable Fire
Toge, Sankichi.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.
A compilation of 104 hand-drawn depictions of A-bomb survivors' vivid memories of Hiroshima scenes.

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