2　FOREWORD

Ⅰ　　7　Setting out on a Retrospective Journey
　　　8　The Morning of Departure
　　 10　My father always avoided being in Hiroshima on the morning of August 6.
　　 13　An army officer exposed to the atomic bomb after returning from the war
　　 17　The Peace Memorial Ceremony which I attended for the first time
　　 21　Another Peace Memorial Ceremony

Ⅱ　 27　My father was playing the piano at the time of the atomic bombing.
　　 30　The Presence of God in Silence
　　 33　Procession of Ghosts
　　 37　Corpses that cannot be looked at directly
　　 41　Two pastors immediately after the atomic bombing
　　 46　Escape from Hell
　　 51　Hope in Despair

Ⅲ　 59　Ground Zero
　　 61　Death of my grandmother, my aunt, and the baby from the atomic bombing
　　 65　The A-bombed U.S. POW that my father met
　　 70　A stupa erected for a U.S. POW who died in the atomic bombing
　　 74　The suffering of survivors
　　 77　Grief care for survivors

Ⅳ　 85　Postwar Political Situation
　　 89　The Hearts of Surviving Hibakusha and the Present State of the Peace
　　　　 Movement
　　 93　The Vietnam War and the Yasuda Auditorium Incident

Ⅴ　101　 Vector of Peace arising from Hiroshima
　　105　 Prayer for Peace
　　110　 Meaningless atomic bombing deaths
　　113　 The Dead Speak to Us
　　116　 The End of the Journey

　　122　 AFTERWORD