Sign Language Testimony of Mr. Toshihisa Nakata

Sign Language Testimony of Mr. Toshihisa Nakata, an A-bombed Deaf in Hiroshima
A series of eight films "The Sign Language Testimonies of Deaf A-bomb Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki", produced with the support of the Ohdake Foundation, will be released by March 2025.
Toshihisa Nakada was born in Hiroshima City in 1937. His father's work took him to Manchuria, but he returned after a few years and entered a school for the deaf in Hiroshima.
He left the city once because of the evacuation of school children, but returned to his home in Hiroshima three days before the atomic bombing and was exposed to the bomb.
Fortunately, his entire family was safe, but he lost hishome and all of his belongings.
To avoid discrimination, Mr. Nakada hid the fact that he was an atomic bomb survivor, but eventually began to talk about his experience.
We hope that as many people as possible will know and appreciate Mrs. Nakada's terrible experience of the atomic bombing.
00:11 Title
00:20 Upbringing
02:10 Entering Hiroshima Prefectural School for the Deaf and U.S. military raid
05:20 Evacuation of school children
09:20 August 6, 1945
13:55 Events immediately after the bombing
17:00 The Red Cross Hospital
19:00 Return of his father
20:50 Return to the school for the deaf
22:22 Memorial to the deaf who died in the Atomic bombing
23:40 Story of a deaf school senior
24:35 My secret and A-bomb book

27min / Japanese subtitles / narration
*This video was filmed in February 2023 in Tokyo and July in Hiroshima, and produced in August-September of 2024 by DeafLand with the cooperation of PapipupepoHiroshima.
STRORY TELLER: Toshihisa Nakata
COOPERATION: Ikimi Amamori, Katsuhiko Oishi, Norie Oka, Yoshio Kawamoto, Toshio Kawamoto, Norihiko Kuramoto, Ikuko Nakata, Kishiro Nagara, Taeko Harada, Tomio Miura, MichitsujiI Yoshiko, Miyuki Yamaguchi, Ohdake Foundation, Papipupepo Hiroshima, Hiroshima-Minami Special Needs Education School, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, United States Strategic Bombing Survey, The U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
VIDEO EDITING SUPERVISOR: Kazushi Matsuda
JAPANESE SUBTITLE COOPERATION: Nahoko Mochida, Hiromi Saito
ENGLISH TRANSLATION COOPERATION: Robert Fouser, Norie Oka
FILMING, EDITING, PRODUCTION: Keiko Chijiiwa