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ID Code VS00337
Name TAKEOKA Chisako
Sex Female
Distance from the Hypocenter 3000m
Age at the Time 17
Age at the time of recording 64
Situation At the time she was a member of the Women’s Volunteer Corps. After two days of work throughout the night, she was at her home in Koikami-machi when the bomb was dropped. On the 7th and the 9th she wandered around the city looking for her mother, who had been working at Army Hospital No. 2. She saw corpses and burned horses floating in the river. In the area around Aioi Bridge she prized open people’s mouths to look at gold teeth to find her mother. She happened to be reunited with her mother on the 11th at Eba National Elementary School.
Occupation at the Time
Place of work at the time Toyo Seikan Company, Women’s Volunteer Corps
Notes
SubtitlesHow to turn on English subtitles Japanese, English
Release Date 1992/08/01
Keyword donor

ダイジェスト(字幕有)/Digest [Eng Sub]

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