In the end of the book, the reader get to see the excerpts from letters that Mr. Tanimoto wrote to Americans, describing the attitudes of many Japanese regarding the bomb. As in this passage, he continually depicts the Japanese as people who demonstrate selfless fidelity to their country and the emperor. Stories such as these help explain that the main reaction of the Japanese, after the horrific bombing, was one of optimistic rebuilding, not anger or bitterness.“Dr. Y. Hiraiwa, professor of Hiroshima University of Literature and Science, and one of my church members, was buried by the bomb under the two storied house with his son, a student of Tokyo University. Both of them could not move an inch under tremendously heavy pressure. And the
