Last essay by late Japanese writer who lost classmates in Hiroshima A-bomb published
April 12, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Japanese nonfiction writer Chieko Seki is seen in photo taken in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2015. (Mainichi/Kimi Sorihashi) TOKYO The final work of Japanese nonfiction writer Chieko Seki, who lost most of her classmates in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, has been published following her death in February this year. The essay, Zoku: Hiroshima Taiwa Zuiso (Essays on Hiroshima dialogue: Part II), published in March by Nishida Shoten, is based on letters Seki exchanged with 90-year-old writer Shiro Nakayama, a long-time friend and A-bomb survivor. The 14-year-old Nakayama was in the middle of work demolishing buildings in Hiroshima, 1.5 kilometers away from the hypocenter, when the bomb was dropped.