NAGASAKI (Kyodo) A collection of poems by Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki who died in January at age 93, has been translated into English by a graduate student in New York.
Chad Diehl, 29, a Columbia University doctoral candidate in modern Japanese history, self-published the translated poems in a book titled "And the River Flowed as a Raft of Corpses" in July.
Diehl met Yamaguchi while creating English subtitles for the 2006 documentary "Niju Hibaku" ("Double Irradiation") in which Yamaguchi was featured along with other double hibakusha.