A diary written by a 14-year-old girl after she was caught up in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, is regarded as one of the most telling memoirs of the event.
The publication of the diary after a censorial struggle with the Allied Occupation authorities "may have contributed to peace," said Masako Yanagawa, 82, about her writing.
"I could never convince myself that it was our sky through which the B-29 carried that devilish atom bomb," she wrote on Sept. 15, 1945, referring to the day's clear blue skies.