{"id":1737,"date":"2024-02-28T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T08:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/?page_id=1737"},"modified":"2024-02-28T17:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T08:28:23","slug":"watashi-ga-chiisakattatokini","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/forpeace\/#watashi-ga-chiisakattatokini","title":{"rendered":"The Picture Book Watashi ga Chiisakatta Toki ni<\/em> (When I was a Child)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and on August 9, another fell on Nagasaki. Within a few years of the bombing, more than 340,000 people died and even today, many are suffering from harmful effects of radiation.<\/p>\n

This picture book contains poetry and compositions written by children who experienced the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima in 1945. When Chihiro visited Hiroshima to prepare this book, she could not sleep at all, thinking of the lives of those who passed away.<\/p>\n

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The Girl and Tomatoes, From Watashi ga Chiisakatta Toki ni<\/em> (When I was a Child), Doshinsha, 1967<\/p><\/div>\n

Instead of dead bodies and wounded children, this book shows children playing, a baby wrapped up in an air-raid hood, a blind mother holding her dead baby, along with other mothers and children who were alive in Hiroshima on that day. After completing the book, Chihiro said, \u201cAs we read the notes that the children left, we can vividly see the misery of the war. I think that my role is to show how adorable these children were\u2014the children who were dragged into the war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Untitled<\/strong>,\u3000 Tomoko Sato, 5th Grade Girl
\nMy little sister Yoshiko was
\nburnt and was lying in bed.
\nShe said that she wanted to eat
\ntomatoes.
\nSo mommy went out,
\nto buy some,
\nand when she was gone,
\nlittle Yoshiko died.
\n\u201cI could give you nothing but
\npotatoes, and you died.\u201d
\nsaid mommy, and she cried.
\nI also cried.
\nEveryone cried.
\nTomoko Sato
\n5th grade girl
\nFrom Watashi ga Chiisakatta Toki ni<\/em> (When I was a Child) by Tokomo Sato<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and on August 9, another fell on Nagasaki. Within a few years of the bombing, more than 340,000 people died and even today, many are suffering from harmful effects of radiation. This picture book contains poetry and compositions written by children who experienced the atomic bomb explosion in Hiroshima in 1945. When Chihiro visited Hiroshima to prepare this book, she could not sleep at all, thinking of the lives of those who passed away. Instead of dead bodies and wounded children, this book shows children playing, a baby wrapped up in an air-raid hood, a blind mother holding her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1544,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1737","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1737\/revisions\/1742"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chihiro.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}