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Hatsuyo Nakamura
A young doctor in the Red Cross Hospital, and one of the six central characters of Hiroshima. Dr. Sasaki is one of the only uninjured doctors left in Hiroshima after the bombing, and, as a result, he gets to work tending to the wounded almost immediately. In the Red Cross Hospital, he works for more than twenty-four hours straight. Years later, Sasaki becomes a highly successful private practitioner; however, it’s implied that the memory of Hiroshima haunts him, and that his vigorous work ethic is in many ways an attempt to forget about the horrors of the bombing.
Dr. Terufumi Sasaki Quotes in Hiroshima
The Hiroshima quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Terufumi Sasaki or refer to Dr. Terufumi Sasaki. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died.
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Chapter 2
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Dr. Sasaki lost all sense of profession and stopped working as a skillful surgeon and a sympathetic man; he became an automaton, mechanically wiping, daubing, winding, wiping, daubing, winding.
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Chapter 4
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She would say, "It was war and we had to expect it." […] Dr. Fujii said approximately the same thing about the use of the bomb to Father Kleinsorge one evening, in German: "Da ist nichts zu machen. There’s nothing to be done about it."
Many citizens of Hiroshima, however, continued to feel a hatred for Americans which nothing could possibly erase. "I see," Dr. Sasaki once said, "that they are holding a trial for war criminals in Tokyo just now. I think they ought to try the men who decided to use the bomb."
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Chapter 5
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Dr. Terufumi Sasaki was still racked by memories of the appalling days and nights right after the explosion—memories it would be his lifework to distance himself from.
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Dr. Terufumi Sasaki Quotes in Hiroshima
The Hiroshima quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Terufumi Sasaki or refer to Dr. Terufumi Sasaki. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died.
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Chapter 2
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Dr. Sasaki lost all sense of profession and stopped working as a skillful surgeon and a sympathetic man; he became an automaton, mechanically wiping, daubing, winding, wiping, daubing, winding.
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Chapter 4
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She would say, "It was war and we had to expect it." […] Dr. Fujii said approximately the same thing about the use of the bomb to Father Kleinsorge one evening, in German: "Da ist nichts zu machen. There’s nothing to be done about it."
Many citizens of Hiroshima, however, continued to feel a hatred for Americans which nothing could possibly erase. "I see," Dr. Sasaki once said, "that they are holding a trial for war criminals in Tokyo just now. I think they ought to try the men who decided to use the bomb."
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Chapter 5
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Dr. Terufumi Sasaki was still racked by memories of the appalling days and nights right after the explosion—memories it would be his lifework to distance himself from.
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