ABSTRACT

On August 6, 1945, Mr. Kajiyama had been summoned to the Hamada Unit of Izumo, Shimane Prefecture. His wife escaped the bombing because she was at home on Toyoshima Island in the Seto Inland Sea. When the unit disbanded and he returned to the island after the war, he heard what had happened to his wife: she went to look for her aunt in bombed city of Hiroshima; she returned, however, without finding so much as a bone. After a while her hair suddenly started to fall out, and nausea and diarrhea continued. A lot of fuss was made at one point when it was suspected that those symptoms might have come from being exposed to the poison from the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, but soon she returned to normal. Since Mr. Kajiyama did not observe any unusual signs in his wife, who was in front of his eyes, he listened to the story as no more than a story.