Word: yoshitaka
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...distinctive Tetris-block shape” and the dumpsters outside the door. Dunster K-51: This geometric marvel features a hexagonal common room with two trapezoidal fire doors, a bedroom the size of an Apley closet, and ceilings so slanted that the rooms are virtually pyramidal. The lucky Yoshitaka Yamamoto and Andrew Q. Jing live directly under Dunster’s belltower and above ongoing construction; scenic Leverett Towers, Mather House, and the leaky, taped-over skylight all do their part to keep sunlight from ever entering. In a word: ridiculous. Pforzheimer Holmes, 3rd Floor: Those the lottery truly hates...
...kilometers outside Hiroshima, across Hiroshima Bay. Mrs. Kawamoto had taken her two boys to Ono one year before, after her husband, an engineer, had been killed in a freak accident in an electrical factory. Until then the Kawamotos had been living in the nearby village of Kuba, where Yoshitaka and his friends swam out long distances in the bay. "They called us 'children of the sea.' " Sailors from German U-boats would wave to the boys from the subs. Kuba was a wonderful town to grow up in, Kawamoto says, a place of frogs and dragonflies. Boys would test their...
...swiped films. The "Groves" is General Leslie Groves, military commander of the Manhattan Project. The films Groves was chasing were the only ones taken of the Hiroshima bomb at the moment it went off. Agnew's Great Artiste was one of the planes seen by the boys in Yoshitaka Kawamoto's schoolyard when assembly was held the morning of Aug. 6. It may also have been the B-29 spotted by Kawamoto's classmate Fujimoto when Kawamoto started toward the window for a look...
Suzuko Numata understands this effort. She is a tiny woman of 61 who, like Yoshitaka Kawamoto, was not far from the hypocenter when the atom bomb exploded. Like Kawamoto, Numata devotes much of her time to speaking to schoolchildren about her experiences on Aug. 6. She spends her private hours in her orderly, sun-filled house on a canal, tending a small garden bright with hydrangeas, peonies, red camelias, sweet daphne and amaryllis; and taking care of several cats and a large, cheerful doll that sits near the porch and whose outfits she changes according to the seasons. Numata smiles...
Rosenblatt found his first perspective in May, when he met Yoshitaka Kawamoto, the director of Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Museum. "He had been in the city during the bombing," says Rosenblatt. "He had a deep sense of the experience and could express it in poetic language. For the next five days, I stayed with him as he revisited all the sites of his early life and provided his account of the bombing...