Surviving the Last Train from Hiroshima
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 8:20 pm
http://japanfocus.org/-Charles-Pellegri ... ticle.html
The above link will bring you to the Japan Focus article about double atomic bomb survivor Kenshi Hirata - one of many survivors who came forth after Associated Press (Sarah Weinman), the New York Times (Motoko Rich), and Holt (Marjorie Braman and Steve Rubin) were hoaxed by people pretending to be everyone from famed Hiroshima artist Keiji Nakazawa and physicist Richard Garwin to former professors of mine - and even people pretending in emails to be me and James Cameron (all, naturally, saying horrible things about me).
Kenshi Hirata (who had been living in seclusion with his family since 1957) was one of the many who came forth to tell of their experiences for the first time. He had survived Hiroshima and then, like many of the key people in my book, traveled by train to Nagasaki (in his case, to deliver a few of his wife's bones to her parents, so she could be properly enshrined). He arrived just in time to survive the atomic bomb a second time. What has emerged, as recorded in the above article, is one of the most poignant love stories in all human history.
The new and expanded edition of the book - "To Hell and back: The Last Train from Hiroshima" - has been successfully published under Mark Selden's imprint (from the Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University), with a Forward from Steve Leeper (who served 6 years as Director of the Hiroshima Memorial Museum). Leeper addresses the publishing scandal of our time: The pulling of a NYT best seller from the press, based on a series of hoaxes perpetrated by internet trolls (one of whom turned out to be a neo-Nazi, carrying a grudge from my 2007 book with Simcha Jacobovici about the Jewishness of the original Jesus movement). It ended with the severe demotion of a NY Times political reporter, the banning of a Holt vice president from New York Publishing for life, and the coming forth of many survivors who had intended to take their stories quietly to the grave, until they heard about the American press, in reference specifically to this book, saying, "Hiroshima did not happen that way."
As Steve Leeper noted, the people he calls "nuclear holocaust deniers" (while trying to squelch the truth about what happened on the ground in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) ended up bringing many new truths to light.
Omoiyari and Nyokodo,
- Charlie Pellegrino
The above link will bring you to the Japan Focus article about double atomic bomb survivor Kenshi Hirata - one of many survivors who came forth after Associated Press (Sarah Weinman), the New York Times (Motoko Rich), and Holt (Marjorie Braman and Steve Rubin) were hoaxed by people pretending to be everyone from famed Hiroshima artist Keiji Nakazawa and physicist Richard Garwin to former professors of mine - and even people pretending in emails to be me and James Cameron (all, naturally, saying horrible things about me).
Kenshi Hirata (who had been living in seclusion with his family since 1957) was one of the many who came forth to tell of their experiences for the first time. He had survived Hiroshima and then, like many of the key people in my book, traveled by train to Nagasaki (in his case, to deliver a few of his wife's bones to her parents, so she could be properly enshrined). He arrived just in time to survive the atomic bomb a second time. What has emerged, as recorded in the above article, is one of the most poignant love stories in all human history.
The new and expanded edition of the book - "To Hell and back: The Last Train from Hiroshima" - has been successfully published under Mark Selden's imprint (from the Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University), with a Forward from Steve Leeper (who served 6 years as Director of the Hiroshima Memorial Museum). Leeper addresses the publishing scandal of our time: The pulling of a NYT best seller from the press, based on a series of hoaxes perpetrated by internet trolls (one of whom turned out to be a neo-Nazi, carrying a grudge from my 2007 book with Simcha Jacobovici about the Jewishness of the original Jesus movement). It ended with the severe demotion of a NY Times political reporter, the banning of a Holt vice president from New York Publishing for life, and the coming forth of many survivors who had intended to take their stories quietly to the grave, until they heard about the American press, in reference specifically to this book, saying, "Hiroshima did not happen that way."
As Steve Leeper noted, the people he calls "nuclear holocaust deniers" (while trying to squelch the truth about what happened on the ground in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) ended up bringing many new truths to light.
Omoiyari and Nyokodo,
- Charlie Pellegrino