The whole city was covered with dark clouds, and conflagrations were breaking out in various directions. Could all of this have happened at once? It was then that black drops of rain, as big as blackberries, began to fall – rain caused by the atomic bomb. I wondered what had happened to my home and church. With a pale face, I ran down the Koi highway. When the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima at 8.15am on 6 August 1945, Methodist minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto was just beginning his day with the usual bowl of soybean and rice bran porridge. Unbeknownst to him at that moment, the aftermath that will unfold before him over days and weeks is full of horror, but through his courageous determination to save his family, church and city from total devastation, Tanimoto would become internationally recognised as a hero of Hiroshima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Author Kiyoshi Tanimoto Published by Ebury Press ISBN 9781529992731 EAN 9781529992731 Bic Code DNC|DNBH1|NHWR7|DNXP|JWMN Cover Hardback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":103937,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[401],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-103938","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-biography","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n