Michiko Nakano set out with the ambition of publishing a collection of stories of her peers' experiences of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in English, hoping to educate more of the world's people about the historic facts of the attack, which occurred exactly 55 years ago today.
"Compared with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the bombing of Nagasaki has been much more understated, therefore much less known," said Nakano, 71.
In the recently published "Nagasaki Under the Atomic Bomb: Experiences of Young College Girls," Nakano's classmates describe what they were doing before the bomb hit and what they saw upon recovering consciousness from the blast. They tell of the complete devastation of the city, those killed or terribly injured, and what happened to the many people who escaped instant death.