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Word: nagaragawa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...gnarled like briar roots, and she lost the use of fingers and hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Young Ladies of Japan | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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