Hiroshima Bombing: Kunihiko Bonkohara

Surviving through Paper The survivors of the Hiroshima bombing are called Hibakusha. One such survivor is named Kunihiko Bonkohara. He was only five years old at the time of the bombing. Kunihiko was at home with his father, when the flash went off his father pushed him under a desk and shielded him with his own body. They were two kilometers away from the hypocenter, both of them only facing minor injuries. Kunihiko body was covered in blotches and he later developed a lung disease in primary school. His father had cuts and bruises, and later on developed stomach cancer and died.
Many japanese people migrated to Brazil after the war. Kunihiko was one of the migrants. He was twenty years old he left Japan for brazil.The imigrants often went