Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
<p>Written in 1947, Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s account of the horrors of the atomic bomb attack will be published in August and is being made into a film</p><p>The memoir of a man who survived the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/1945/aug/09/japan.fromthearchive">horrors of Hiroshima</a> is to be published for the first time this summer after its discovery in a US archive.</p><p>The 230-page memoir was written almost 80 years ago by Kiyoshi Tanimoto, who witnessed the city’s destruction after
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