Sadako Teiko Okuda
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1914, Okuda was teaching sewing on a small island some 35 miles off Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Even from that distance, both her sight and hearing on her right side were permanently damaged. From 1960 and until her retirement, she taught home economics at a non-traditional high school in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
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The Children of Hiroshima
The little boy did not cry or speak. He just stood there and stared at me intensely. With great effort I stood up and tested…