Lost Hiroshima Survivor Memoir Found in Hersey's Archive Bypasses Wartime Censorship

Kiyoshi Tanimoto's English-language memoir, written in the immediate aftermath of Hiroshima's bombing, was discovered in journalist John Hersey's papers at Emory University. The manuscript remained unpublished for decades under Allied occupation censorship that suppressed hibakusha testimony. Penguin Random House will publish *Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir* August 6, 2026—the eighty-first anniversary. The text offers Tanimoto's uncensored voice, distinct from Hersey's 1946 account that shaped Western understanding of the bombing.