Osamu
Kataoka, profesor universitario de 45 años, casado.
Tenia 13 años al tiempo de la explosion nuclear y se encontraba
a apenas 800 metros del epicentro.
Su pader y un hermano mayor murieron, y su madre y dos hermanas
resultaron gravemente heridas
Escribio
a los 17 años: "I ran to the edge of the pool. What
did I see there? A drowned classmate, who was burned all over.
Another classmate was trying to put out a fire on a friend's clothes
with his own spouting blood."