Samizu's life & times: Nine years old in Noboribetsu when Hiroshima died. Hokkaido during and after World War 2
Samizu Matsuki describes life as 9 year old in Northern Japan when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The interview by her then-husband Ronald Calvin Huber was in late 2003 Noboribetsu. August 1945 "First I have to explain the particular environment & circumstances: The dropping of the atomic bomb. I call it the "Hiroshima Incident" I was a Japanese kid. 9 years old. In 4th grade. I was living in Noboribetsu. It happened in 1945 in early August. First atomic bomb used in mankind's history. All the movies and all those things that describe it are false. It wasn't like that at all. In the beginning, we didn't know what the heck it was. Then next thing we know, we got to all get checked out for "fallout". We didn't know what the fallout was. We only knew that if you are wet or ...