75 years ago today the United States unleashed an atomic bomb on the people of Hiroshima, leaving over 135,000 people dead or wounded. Learn about some of the women who survived. Hiroshima75
. The hospital donated operating rooms and beds, and a Quaker group arranged for the young women to stay with American host families.Host families were afraid that the young women would become homesick or have trouble adjusting over
, but largely the young women reported feeling the opposite. Toyoko Minowa, one of the women who traveled as part of the group, described her experience to thein 1955, saying, "The people with whom we fought 10 years ago seem to be our friends now....I feel at home here in New York. I don't feel that I came to a foreign country. People here are so nice and friendly.", “So far, no homesickness. And they love American food, especially frankfurters.
“[They] have a warmth about them and a gift for laughter that created an entirely different and certainly much more welcome atmosphere than the one we anticipated,” one host mother reported to Cousins.that media coverage of the women’s experiences in the U.S. banalized the horrors of the atomic bomb, making little acknowledgement of the mass destruction and suffering.
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