Testimony

MC21	August 15th.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki learned Japan's unconditional surrender.
274	Japan failed in war.
275	Did Japan win the war or lose it?
276	We all cried, both men and women.
277	My wife said, "I wished the war had came to an end a little earlier."
278	If Japan had surrendered a week earlier, my father would not have died.
279	I didn't care whether Japan has won or lost.
280	I wasn't bothered when I heard that Japan had lost the war.
281	War made us suffer so much.  It didn't matter whether we won or lost.
282	Could I make it back to my home town alive?
283	All army officers must kill themselves.
284	Better kill myself than being a prisoner.
285	I threw my hood in the air.
286	I may have been a hikokumin(traitor).
287	It's a sheer waste to use woods to burn only one body.
MC22	For three weeks from August 16 to the beginning of September.
288	I'm finished if I have a nose bleed.
289	He burnt our baby.
290	My husband died and I was left with my children.
291	My mother, wife, daughter all died with swellings on their bodies.
292	acomia, speckles, leukopenic and fever.
293	You may die in a few days.
294	I gradually came to realise that something is wrong.
295	A big change in hematopoietic functions.
296	Radiation injury was the great majority.
297	Medical science had no chance against it.
298	Maggots crawled inside the bodies.
299	Babies were carried to the incineration spot alive.
300	Call out each other in a low voice.
301	Oh, that one has died.
302	The boy has made a noise till now.
303	The person of attendance died earlier than the patient.
304	Once we isolated them I had to leave them.
305	It was much more peaceful in a field hospital.
306	People carried bodies by garbage carts.
307	The professor died as one soldier.