{"id":7312,"date":"2016-01-14T14:39:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=7312"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:39:03","slug":"masahito-hirose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/masahito-hirose\/","title":{"rendered":"Masahito Hirose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hirose7aa.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hirose7aa.jpg\" alt=\"Hirose7aa\" width=\"550\" height=\"553\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hirose7aa.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hirose7aa-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hirose7aa-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWe cannot listen to the voices that vanished near the hypocenter.<br \/>\nNo matter how many testimonies I gather, a blank will remain.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n-Masahito Hirose<\/p>\n<p>Today I received the sad news that Mr. Masahito Hirose passed away, two months before his 86th birthday.  I photographed Mr. Hirose on my second trip to Nagasaki.  He was 15 years old when the atomic bomb destroyed the city.  He didn\u2019t sustain any external injuries from the blast but suffered from cancer.  <\/p>\n<p>After the H-Bomb test on Bikini Atoll in 1954, Mr. Hirose devoted his life to collecting the testimonies of other hibaksuha (atomic bomb survivors).  While recording the stories it allowed him to confront his own tragic experiences.  <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hirose spoke fluent English so he was one of the few hibakusha I was able to speak with directly.  His language skills were important because he was one of the first to translate the hibakusha\u2019s testimony into English. When I first read about him I immiediately asked if I could meet him.  I have always been grateful for his honesty and time.   <\/p>\n<p>He will be missed but never forgotten.  <\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nvar _gaq = _gaq || [];   _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-12680478-1']);   _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);   (function() {     var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text\/javascript'; ga.async = true;     ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https:\/\/ssl' : 'http:\/\/www') + '.google-analytics.com\/ga.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);   })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe cannot listen to the voices that vanished near the hypocenter. No matter how many testimonies I gather, a blank will remain.\u201d -Masahito Hirose Today I received the sad news that Mr. Masahito Hirose passed away, two months before his 86th birthday. I photographed Mr. Hirose on my second trip to Nagasaki. He was 15 [&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":[576,574,621,571],"class_list":["post-7312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-above","category-hibakusha","category-nagasaki","tag-from-above","tag-hibakusha","tag-masahito-hirose","tag-nagasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7315,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312\/revisions\/7315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}