Word: tanimoto
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...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...
Last week it reviewed the life of Kiyoshi Tanimoto. the Japanese Methodist minister who is the guardian of the 25 Hiroshima girls now in the U.S. to get plastic surgery for their A-bomb scars...
...Tanimoto's early years-his conversion to Christianity, his studies in the U.S. for the ministry, his onetime congregation in California-led to a climax. He was at Hiroshima when the bomb dropped. Somber, inscrutable, he told what happened at that catastrophic moment and how afterwards, not wounded himself, he helped survivors. Then a young man was brought on stage whom Tanimoto had never before seen. He was introduced as Captain Robert Lewis, U.S.A.F., the copilot of the 6-29. Enola Gay, that dropped the bomb. After a slight hesitation, the two men shook hands. Then Lewis, now personnel...