Shorts

Jiro Mitsuda (then, 12), a sixth-year student at a national school (elementary school), was on his way to school when he experienced the atomic bombing. With his face swelling from a large burn and the skin sagging from his body, he was only wearing these shorts. Making his way home crying, he arrived to find his mother, Katsuko (then, 38), collapsed and covered in blood at the entrance. Not caring what happened to himself, he only wanted someone to help his mother. He went to find a neighbor and frantically put out a fire on the second floor of his house by himself. Later, he died in pain on the morning of August 11.