Totaro Karasuda 鴉田藤太郎 (1917-1978) was an administrative official at the Hiroshima Sanatorium for Wounded Soldiers, located in the town of Saijo (present-day Higashihiroshima City), Hiroshima Prefecture. He photographed the mushroom cloud from the sanatorium, around 25 kilometers northeast of the hypocenter. On the afternoon of August 6, he traveled to Hiroshima to help with aid efforts, taking notes of the names of victims and the extent of their injuries as a substitute for medical charts while sanatorium physicians provided treatment at the Hiroshima East Police Station, where the wounded had taken refuge. After the war, he served in such positions as chief of the accounting section at the Chugoku Regional Medical Bureau of Japan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare. Mr. Karasuda died at the age of 60.
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