He was in Hiroshima when the bomb fell. The 13 -year diary that lived was donated to a museum

Yoko Moriwaki was 13 when the bomb exploded in Hiroshima. He died at night due to exposure to radiation. His diary reports the way he lived fully during the war.

A diary and other objects belonging to Yoko Moriwakia teenager who died during Hiroshima’s bombardment by the US, were donated to a local memorial museum.

“These objects should become the memory of humanity,” he said Yo Hosokawa66, nephew of the teenager, after donating his aunt’s belongings to the Hiroshima Memorial Museum.

The diary and these objects “are proof that Yoko lived his life fully During the war, ”said Yoshifumi Ishida, director of the museum, quoted by.“ I hope many people will see them and feel the inhumanity of atomic bombs“.

On August 6, 1945, Yoko Moriwaki, then a student of the first year of secondary education, was aboutand 800 meters from the center of the explosion. Teenager Died at night due to exposure to radiation.

Entries in your diary began the day it began secondary education. In the last entrance, made the day before bombingyou can read: “The preparations for evacuation will start tomorrow. I will strive a lot. ”

On the page after your last entry, there is A message from the father, Ataruthat only I heard of his death when he returned from China after the end of the war. In his message, he writes that he expected Yoko to rest in peace.

In 2015, the content of the diary was translated and in English, with the title “The Yoko Diary: the life of a teenager in Hiroshima during World War II”.

“In his diary, Yoko reports the time, when the conditions were so precarious that children with 12 years were forced to work, fierce battles happened in the Pacific and Children like Yoko believed that the victory was near“It reads in the preface to the book.

On June 7, aunt’s birthday, Hosokawa visited her grave, where she made known that she would donate her belongings to her museum.

“O 80th anniversary of atomic bombardment offers a good opportunity to Pass the testimony of a person memories boxS for the world and for the future, ”said Hosokawa.“ I want people to feel the regret of a victim whose Small life was suddenly interrupted“.

In August 1945, the United States over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The uranium bomb released at 08.15h on the 6th in Hiroshima exploded about 580 meters altitude About the city still half asleep, oblivious to the catastrophe that was about to happen.

70,000 people are estimated to have died instantly, and 145,000 by the end of 1945. Yoko Moriwaki survived a few hours, leaving us the 13-year-old report and almost two months.