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The reason why I made a cloth picture book

" Nagasaki and the Atomic Bomb"
On August 9, 1945 at 11:02, I became a victim of atomic-bombing at 4.2km distant away from the bombed site while playing in front of a large air-raid shelter with a stairwell assembled on a hilltop.
I was 7 years old at the time, a second grader at the national primary school when a flash of lightening appeared in the sky and I heard men shouting “Take cover!”
In the evening when we were returning back to our homes, I remember seeing layers of ominous clouds in the sky.
Many years have passed since then but strangely in 2009 my meeting with a group of people talking about the experiences of atomic bombing of Nagasaki became more frequent. And at 2:46pm on March 11, 2011, the Great Earthquake of Eastern Japan occurred.
The vast disaster area caused by the great earthquake and tsunami said to occur once in a thousand years was widely televised. The 1st Nuclear Atomic Power Plant in Fukushima was destroyed and a massive dose of radiation leaked. It was ‘a bolt from out of the blue.’
This was an unexpected accident, we were told, but we all learned a costly lesson not to take nature lightly.
This occurrence confirmed my decision to make a cloth picture book about“The Atomic Bombing in Nagasaki”to remind us all never to repeat the same mistakes.
Hokubu Yuri no Kai, President Yoshiko Sakai