OSAKA -- While Yoshikuni Inoue's is a familiar face in Kansai business circles, he is better known for his efforts to boost the region's economy as joint chairman of the Kansai Association of Corporate Executives in the early 1990s than as a survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing.
Inoue, 69, senior adviser to Osaka-based machinery maker Daikin Industries, Ltd., was surprised to receive more than 300 letters from people who read his book, which describe his experience on that dreadful day.
Published in both English and Japanese, "Before and After 'That Day,' " was released by Kansai Journal Co. on Aug. 6 -- the 55th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, which devastated Hiroshima and, according to the city, instantly killed almost 140,000 people.