Mr. Yasutoshi Horibe

Mr. Yasutoshi Horibe
age: 39; occupation: office worker; family: wife
<at that time> age: 6; at home, in the garden (1,500 meters from the hypocenter); mother died; father and elder sister injured.

"When I was playing behind our house, I heard the buzzing of an airplane. When I looked up to see whether the plane was Japanese or American..." (written at age 12)

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