Michihiko Hachiya  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
to: navigation, search  Michihiko Hachiya (蜂谷道彦 Hachiya
Michihiko?, 1903 in Okayama Prefecture - 1980) was a Japanese
medical practitioner who survived the Hiroshima bombing in 1945
and kept a diary of his experience. He was Director of the
Hiroshima Communications Hospital and lived near the hospital,
about a mile from the explosion's center. A 1984 editorial in
the Journal of American Medical Association, indicates "At the
urging of friends, Dr. Hachiya first published his diary in a
small Japanese-language medical journal (Teishin Igaku) that
circulated among medical members of the Japanese communications
services. There it came to the attention of Warner Wells, MD, an
American physician who was working in Japan in 1950 as a
surgical consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission." It
was Dr. Wells, who in consultation with Dr. Hachiya, made the
diary to be published in 1955, under the name of Hiroshima
Diary.  During, and post bombing life[e