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[00:05.40]On a brilliant summer's morning in 1945,
[00:12.89]Kaz Tanaka looked up into the sky over Hiroshima
[00:18.76]and saw the beginning of the end of her world. She was eighteen.
[00:27.00]A white dot appeared in the sky,
[00:32.33]as small and innocent-looking as a slip of paper.
[00:38.48]It was falling away from the plane, drifting down toward them.
[00:45.14]The journey took a mere 43 seconds.
[00:51.52]The air exploded in blinding lightning and colour,
[00:58.18]the rays shooting outward as in a child's drawing of the sun,
[01:05.41]and Kaz was flung to the ground so violently
[01:11.17]that her two front teeth broke off;
[01:16.03]she had sunk into unconsciousness.
[01:20.50]Kaz's father had been out back weeding the vegetables in his underclothes.
[01:28.24]When he came staggering out of the garden,
[01:32.99]blood was running from his nose and mouth.
[01:37.96]By the next day the exposed parts of his body had turned a chocolate brown
[01:46.24]What had been a luxury home in that sector of the city came thundering down
[01:54.41]That life had been a comfortable one, wanting in nothing
[02:02.26]at least, not until the war.
[02:06.50]Kaz's father had been born to a family of some wealth
[02:12.48]and social position in Hiroshima,
[02:17.23]and had emigrated to America in the early 1920s in the spirit of adventure
[02:25.98]not of need or flight; he never intended to stay.
[02:32.93]He moved back to Hiroshima at 40;
[02:38.00]it was expected of him as the sole male heir to their name
[02:44.45]But he brought his American baby girl with him,
[02:50.10]and a life-style flavoured with American ways.
[02:55.97]The house he built was a roomy one.
[03:01.73]There was a courtyard in front of the place and two gardens in back,
[03:08.89]one to provide vegetables,
[03:13.07]one to delight the eye in the formal Japanese layout.
[03:19.51]One of the two living rooms was American,
[03:24.98]with easy chairs instead of mats or tatami
[03:30.85]and so were the kitchen and bathroom. Dinner was Japanese,
[03:39.60]with the family sitting on the floor in the traditional way.
[03:45.47]Breakfast was American, pancakes or bacon or ham and eggs,
[03:53.64]taken at the kitchen table.
[03:57.89]What remained of the life he had made was blown to bits
[04:04.26]though his home was more than a mile from ground zero.
[04:10.02]He was working on the side facing zero,
[04:15.06]and had the front of his body and limbs burnt.
[04:20.93]His flesh, when Kaz touched him, had the soft feel of a boiled tomato.
[04:29.68]Kaz was anxiously waiting for the return of another member of her family
[04:37.34]when a tall chap appeared where the gate had been.
[04:43.21]"He's back!" she shouted; her brother, at six feet tall,
[04:51.96]towered over most Japanese men,
[04:56.60]and she knew at a glimpse that it was him.
[05:01.86]But when she drew closer, she could barely recognize him through his wounds
[05:09.92]His school had fallen down around him.
[05:14.78]He had struggled to a medical station.
[05:19.43]They had splashed some medicine on the wounds,
[05:25.98]tied them with a bandage and sent him on his way.
[05:31.96]For a moment, he stood swaying at the ruins of the gate.
[05:38.62]Kaz stared at him.
[05:42.29]Later, when night fell, Kaz and her brother made for the mountains;
[05:49.56]a friend from Kaz's factory lived in a village on the slope of a hill
[05:56.62]behind the city and had offered to take them in.
[06:02.88]It was midnight by the time they found her place.
[06:08.35]Kaz looked back. The city was on fire.
[06:14.80]She felt uneasy, seized with fear, not for herself but for her parents
[06:23.26]She left her brother behind
[06:27.43]and dashed down the slope of the hill toward the flames.
[06:33.98]The streets were filled with the dead and barely living.
[06:39.96]She kept on running, knowing only that she had to be home.
[06:45.94]Kaz's family had been luckier than most.
[06:51.41]Her father with his burns had to lie outdoors on a tatami,