On the morning of 6 August 1945, Michiko overslept. "I remember thinking, 'I can make it to work on time if I get the later train, but I still might catch my usual train if I run to the station'," she ...

Michiko Yoshitsuka, 14, was a student at a girls' school in the heart of Hiroshima. But when the city enlisted school children for the war effort, she'd started working at the Toyo Kogyo factory, 8km ...

For most of her life, Michiko spoke little about her experiences in 1945. But as the 50th anniversary of the bombing approached, in 1995, Michiko's doctor suggested she write her own account of events ...