Emiko Okada by Erika Saito https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r Hiroshima bombing timeline en-us 2021-10-12 00:56:09 UTC 2025-09-26 11:13:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Emiko Okada erikas241_1 https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1809158603  Emiko Okada is a survivor in the Hiroshima bombing who was 8 when the bomb hit. She believes that the reason all this had happened is because of how the adults that time had acted so foolishly, orphaning many children that were left alive. She says that it is unbelievable how children were sold on August 6th to adults that they didn’t know about. “War is one of either things: either you kill or you get killed.” She said]]> 2021-10-12 01:00:47 UTC https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1809158603 Emiko Okada’s Family erikas241_1 https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1809195498 Emiko lived with her mother, father, older sister, and younger brother. 
Her mother was a very kind person. She taught Emiko and her sister how to sew. Lots of people told Emiko how her mother had helped them or taken care of them. Like “Because your mum came, I stayed on the right path.”
Her father was a teacher at the current Setouchi High School, back then it was the Matsumoto Commercial School.
At home he was very loving. At the time, teachers were not just to be respected, they were seen as being above just about everyone, but at home, he was just a normal father.
Her older sister Mieko waswhat a real leader, she pulled everyone into line and was called “Miss Class President”. My sister making it into the Daiichi Girls School was a point of pride for my parents. Only two girls were picked to get in from primary school.

]]> 2021-10-12 01:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1809195498 erikas241_1 https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1812731951 2021-10-13 03:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1812731951 nonokak241_1 https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1822945266 2021-10-18 02:29:52 UTC https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1822945266 After the Bomb nonokak241_1 https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1822961930 It has almost been 76 years since the bomb hit Hiroshima. At the age of 50, she went with the help of a nonprofit organization to schools and other venues in the U.S., where she talked about her experiences of the atomic bombing. She went on to tell her story at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and elsewhere."I don't want the children of the world to have to experience the same things." She said.
In 2009 she visited the United Nations in New York, and there she described the reality of the atomic bombing. She continued to tell her message to the world, in 2015 she became the first atomic bomb survivor, to be invited to the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Sweden.

]]> 2021-10-18 02:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1822961930 nonokak241_1 https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1822964752 2021-10-18 02:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1822964752 Her Perspective nonokak241_1 https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1825547042 As a child, she was always a tomboy, she even wanted to join the military. She really wanted to try military clothes on, and thought they were cool. At the time, children were educated to think that soldiers were the most fabulous people in the world. If you had a boy, every household would cooperate and send them off for the country. She was still a kid, so she just believed what she was taught.

 After the bomb hit, I was really down, feeling sorry for myself. After the bomb, she  started feeling that I had to become nicer and more caring. After graduating high school, she studied to be a dressmaker. Before the war, she was acting out against her own parents. Saying that “I’ll never make clothes!”.


]]> 2021-10-19 00:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1825547042 nonokak241_1 https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1825547859 2021-10-19 00:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1825547859 Emiko Okada thoughts about war erikas241_1 https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1825564224 Emiko Okada believes that the war started because of the adults during that time. She says that the reason why all those Hiroshima’s children were orphaned is because of what the adults have caused and children are involved in it because of them. “The war was caused by the selfish misdeeds of adults. Many children fell victim because of it. Alas, this is still the case today. Us adults must do everything we can to protect the lives and dignity of our children. Children are our greatest blessing.”she said]]> 2021-10-19 00:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1825564224 Sources nonokak241_1 https://padlet.com/erikas241_1/r89n3b2swjxtsi3r/wish/1825573001 http://antnews.hiroshima-nagasaki.net/emiko-okada-the-story-of-an-atomic-bombing-survivor-part-one/

http://antnews.hiroshima-nagasaki.net/emiko-okada-the-story-of-an-atomic-bombing-survivor-part-two/

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210712/p2a/00m/0na/054000c

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-53476318 

https://time.com/after-the-bomb/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-bomber-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima


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