| Situation |
16 years old at the time.Ms. Kanai was in the central telephone company 450 meters from the hypocenter when the bomb was dropped. The central telephone company in Fukuromachi where she was performing labor service had a three shift system, and she was working as a switchboard operator and had been working on night shift since the previous evening. Even today, she cannot forget the sight of the children and teachers at the neighboring Fukuromachi Elementary School who she saw when she fled. |
