Mrs. Yasuko Hirokawa

Mrs. Yasuko Hirokawa
age: 42; occupation: housewife; family: husband and three children
<at that time> age: 9; at home (2,000 meters from the hypocenter); younger brother died; parents and three younger brothers injured.

"Four or five trucks in the square suddenly burst into flame. Telegraph poles were burning, and the wooden walls too. I felt uneasy. Am I alive or am I in a different world..." (written at age 16)

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