{"id":9091,"date":"2022-01-03T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=9091"},"modified":"2022-01-03T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:01:02","slug":"noboru-tasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/03\/noboru-tasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Noboru Tasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4325345.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9092\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4325345.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4325345-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4325345-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Since the bomb detonated above the city the<\/em> <em>strong blast and flash of light hit our house which was located on a hill.&nbsp;&nbsp;All the glass from the windows was smashed.&nbsp;&nbsp;My father thought a regular bomb dropped on the roof because tiles had blown off, so he went onto the roof to get rid of it, although he quickly discovered it was not a regular bomb.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As the day progressed my parents saw the mushroom cloud rise above Nagasaki.&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;<br>-Noboru Tasaki, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivor<br><br>Noboru Tasaki was a year and 4 months old when the atomic bomb was over Nagasaki.&nbsp;&nbsp;His entire family was bombed.&nbsp; He&nbsp;was the second youngest of 8 siblings &#8211; his mother was pregnant with his younger brother.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The family&#8217;s home was located in a town outside of the city called&nbsp;Yokoo, about 5.5km (3.5 miles) from the hypocenter.<br><br>This portrait is a part of my From Above project which featured portraits of atomic bomb and firebombing survivors from WWII. My limited edition book is available at&nbsp;https:\/\/www.photoeye.com\/bookstore\/citation.cfm?catalog=I1040&amp;i&amp;i2&amp;fbclid=IwAR1MsnTQNUo5AAD7OGWp_hM1LlvM8_zojBgUwd4s-Q7Hhs4HGFzIs33pZAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Since the bomb detonated above the city the strong blast and flash of light hit our house which was located on a hill.&nbsp;&nbsp;All the glass from the windows was smashed.&nbsp;&nbsp;My father thought a regular bomb dropped on the roof because tiles had blown off, so he went onto the roof to get rid of it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,109,100],"tags":[576,574,571],"class_list":["post-9091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-above","category-hibakusha","category-nagasaki","tag-from-above","tag-hibakusha","tag-nagasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9094,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}