Miss toshiko sasaki

Miss Sasaki is a twenty-year-old clerk who works hard to take care of her siblings and parents.

The beginning of the chapter introduces readers to its six principal subjects by stating where they were when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The next is Dr. Masaku Fujii, who was settling down to read on the porch of his private hospital. Then Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura , a tailor's widow, who was standing beside her kitchen window, watching her neighbor tearing down his house.

Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German Jesuit priest, was reclining on a cot in his mission house. Terfumi Sasaki not related to Miss Sasaki was walking through the corridors of the Red Cross Hospital where he worked. Finally, Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, was unloading a handcart of things he had evacuated from the city for fear of an air raid.

Though one-hundred-thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, these six survived, and each credits a series of small decisions—deciding to go indoors, catching one street car instead of the next, etc. Tanimoto wakes up alone that morning, because his wife has been commuting with their three-year-old baby to spend nights at a friend's in a suburb called Ushida, because Mr.

Tanimoto is extremely anxious that Hiroshima will be targeted for a B air raid soon. Tanimoto himself is moving important items from his church out of the city, where they will be safer in the event of a raid. He and his friend Mr. Matsuo have a reciprocal agreement to help each other haul out their larger items.