Postscript from Hiroshima

New York: Random House, 1966. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [6], 119, [3] pages. Bookplate inside the front cover. DJ has slight wear and soiling. The author began his education on the Orient as a war correspondent during the Korean War. The later joined Time and had U.S. and overseas assignments. In 1959 he became the Far Eastern Correspondent/Tokyo Bureau Chief for Newsweek. He then launched a diverse and successful freelance writing career. Twenty years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the author talked with many survivors. Approximately one fifth of the city's population were survivors of the atomic bomb. Some of them experienced leukemia, cancer, and accelerated aging. The city had been rebuilt except for the old industrial exhibition hall, known as the Atomic Dome. It was hardly noticed by the young.