The memoirs of Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Hiroshima resident who survived the atomic bombing, have been discovered in US archives.
Oxu.Az reports, citing The Guardian, that the 230-page memoirs were written in 1947 but never published before.
On the day of the bombing, Tanimoto, a pastor at the local Methodist church, was out of town for a few hours moving furniture, which saved his life. According to his daughter Koko Tanimoto Kondo, when he returned to Hiroshima, he was confronted with such a horrific scene that he decided to write about it so that "no one and never again would experience such a thing." Tanimoto died in 1986 at the age of 77.
Publishers Random House and Penguin will print the memoirs on August 6, the 81st anniversary of the bombing. In November, production of a feature film based on the memoirs will begin. Actor Takehiro Hira will portray the pastor, and American filmmaker Phil Coanu will direct.
