Category: Hiroshima

In the book Hiroshima by John Hersey, there is a character named Dr. Terufumi Sasaki he is a surgeon working at a hospital. Dr. Terufumi would always take risks because he took care of patients without having the papers to officially be allowed to help people. But when the city is suffering as bad as…

We can only approach it obliquely, from different angles that get closer to a central understanding but never quite touch it. We can only comprehend asymptotically. Angelica Chong mentioned in her article on Hiroshima, Redux (Chong, 2016). She questions if we can ever understand atrocity and if we can never truly understand it, should we…