Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
Summary
A 230-page memoir by Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, will be published for the first time this summer after being found in a US archive. The memoir will also inspire a feature film about the bombing's destruction and its impact, with production starting in late 2026.Key Facts
- The memoir was written nearly 80 years ago by Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Hiroshima Methodist priest who survived the atomic bombing in 1945.
- Tanimoto’s memoir had been unpublished and stored in a US archive until its recent discovery.
- The memoir will be published on August 6, the anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb, by Random House in the US and Penguin worldwide.
- A film based on the memoir is planned, starring Takehiro Hira and produced by Donald Rosenfeld; shooting will start in February 2027.
- Tanimoto survived because he was away transporting a wardrobe when the bomb dropped; he later returned to witness the city’s destruction.
- An estimated 120,000 people died in Hiroshima within days of the bomb; the US dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki three days later.
- Tanimoto’s daughter, Koko Tanimoto Kondo, wrote a 9,000-word foreword emphasizing the importance of remembering history to prevent future nuclear attacks.
- The memoir offers a detailed, personal account of the horrors caused by the Hiroshima bombing amid current global nuclear tensions.
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