Chapter 5: The Aftermath
Hatsuyo Nakamura
1. What marked the lowest, saddest moment of Mrs. Nakamura’s life?
2. What term did the Japanese shy away from when referring to those who went through the blasts?
3. What is a “Hibakusha?”
4. What incident finally prompted the Japanese government to provide relief for the hibakusha?
5. How did non-hibaskusha employers treat survivors?
6. What steady job did Mrs. Nakamura finally get?
7. What did American Professor Floyd Schmoe do for survirors?
8. What nickname did the women at the factory give Mrs. Nakamura?
9. What law was passed in 1957 to help victims?
10. How many classes of people affected by the blast were officially denied?
11. What did the “Health Books” provide victims with?
12. Where did Hatsuyo Nakamura’s son Toshio end up working?
13. What gift did Toshio present Hatsuyo with?
14. What did Mrs. Nakamura take up for pleasure after she retired?
15. What was Mrs. Nakamura supposed to be able to summon up at the Yasukuni Shrine?
16. What was Mrs. Nakamura’s state of mind when she returned home from the Yasukuni Shrine?
17. What happened to Mrs. Nakamura when she danced on the Emperor’s birthday 4 decades later?
18. Did she go home from the hospital?
Dr. Terufumi Sasaki
19. What would be Dr. Sasaki’s life work?
20. It took most interns 5 years to get their doctoral degree; how long did it take Dr. Sasaki?
21. Why did Dr. Sasaki choose the woman he did to marry?
22. What made up most of Dr. Sasaki’s work as a surgeon?
23. What often happened when keloid scars were removed?
24. What was the ultimate conclusion concerning keloid scars?
25. What did Dr. Sasaki decide to do in 1951?
26. Where did he start treating patients?
27. How much did the bank increase his line of credit when they saw Dr. Sasaki’s patient load?
28. What disease was much higher in hibakusha than normal?
29. How did Dr. Sasaki react to the revelations concerning what hibakusha suffered?
30. What did doctors find when Dr. Sasaki underwent a physical examination?
31. What did Dr. Sasaki’s wife of?
32. What change did he make in terms of his practice?
33. What did he build on the site of his former clinic?
34. What was Dr. Sasaki’s one regret?
Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge
35. What did Father Kleinsorge become a classical case of?
36. What did one of Father Kleinsorge’s colleagues jokingly say about him and Japan?
37. What did Father Kleinsorge file for and get?
38. What was Father Kleinsorge’s most disturbing complaint?
39. What was Father Kleinsorge’s favorite reading material traveling?
40. Despite his naturalization Father Kleinsorge was still known to friends as “unshakably” what?
41. What happened when Father Kleinsorge clapped the sparrows away from the window?
42. What did Father Kleinsorge injures when he slipped on the icy path?
43. What never told lies, according to Father Kleinsorge?
44. What did Yoshiki-san lie to Father Kleinsorge about?
Toshiko Sasaki
45. What new blow did Toshiko Sasaki experience?
46. Who was the only person that gave Toshiko comfort?
47. Where did she send her brother and sister?
48. Where did she find work?
49. What profession did she eventually qualify for?
50. What did the surgeries finally do for her legs?
51. Who was brought to the orphanage from time to time?
52. What opinion did she have that was not conventional for hibakusha?
53. What accident did her brother experience?
54. What new qualification did she earn after realizing she might have to care for her brother?
55. Where did Sasaki go when she knew she would never marry?
56. What did Father Takakura promise her?
57. What did she learn the first days when she entered?
58. What did Toshiko become the first Japanese director of?
59. How long was she in charge there?
60. What was her greatest gift?
61. What was one of the happiest moments in her life?
Dr. Masakuzu Fujii
62. What was Dr. Fujii’s hobby for years?
63. How did she obtain penicillin for his patients?
64. How did Dr. Fujii deal with psychological effects of the bomb?
65. What sport did he “succumb” to?
66. What developed in Hiroshima that was considered “gaudy”?
67. Where did his “adventure” take him in 1956?
68. What quarrel did Dr. Fujii have as President of the Hiroshima Lion’s club?
69. What did he build for himself?
70. What questionable accident did Dr. Fujii suffer?
71. How did he live his final eleven years?
72. What was discovered in his liver after his autopsy?
Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto
73. Where did anger of many hibakusha “modulate” toward?
74. What did Rev. Tanimoto realize he needed to build?
75. What did American occupation personnel do to supply depots?
76. Where was Rev. Tanimoto invited to raise money?
77. What did he decide to devote his life to during the voyage?
78. What role did the Reverend Mr. Green assume when Rev. Tanimoto moved in with him?
79. What did Rev. Tanimoto do as he “toured?”
80. Where was Rev. Tanimoto’s memorandum published?
81. Specifically, what was being propsed in Rev. Tanimoto’s memorandum?
82. What did the people of Hiroshima feel about Mr. Tanimoto’s proposal when it was published?
83. What did the Japanese Diet reveal on the 4th anniversary of the blast?
84. Where was Rev. Tanimoto at this time?
85. What petition was Norman Cousins promoting?
86. How much did Rev. Tanimoto raise for his church?
87. What happened when Rev. Tanimoto took the Cadillac for a spin?
88. What was the high point of Mr. Tanimoto’s second tour?
89. What were the 12 Keloid girls called in the press?
90. Where did Norman Cousins suggest further surgery be done?
91. How many girls were chosen for plastic surgery?
92. What show did Mr. Tanimoto find himself featured on?
93. What sound effect played while Ralph Edwards introduced Rev. Tanimoto?
94. What guest shocked Rev. Tanimoto?
95. What words did Lewis write in his log?
96. How were the “maidens” shown to the TV audience?