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Japan to Release 80-Year-Old Hiroshima Memoir, Film Follows

6/23/2026

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Japan will publish Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s Hiroshima memoir on 6 August 2026.
The memoir, written 80 years ago by Kiyoshi Tanimoto, was found in a U.S. archive and contains a 9,000-word foreword by his daughter Koko Tanimoto Kondo.
Takehiro Hira will play Tanimoto in a Rosenfeld film slated for 2027, which Rosenfeld calls timely because nuclear threats may be 10,000 times stronger than the 1945 bomb.

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Japan will publish Kiyoshi Tanimoto’s Hiroshima memoir on 6 August 2026.
The memoir, written 80 years ago by Kiyoshi Tanimoto, was found in a U.S. archive and contains a 9,000-word foreword by his daughter Koko Tanimoto Kondo.
Takehiro Hira will play Tanimoto in a Rosenfeld film slated for 2027, which Rosenfeld calls timely because nuclear threats may be 10,000 times stronger than the 1945 bomb.