Slow Burn - One Year: 1955 | 6. The Hiroshima Maidens
One Year
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Ten years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 25 women who’d been disfigured by the blast came to the United States. Those Japanese survivors would go to the White House and end up on a bizarre proto reality TV show. They’d also put their lives in the hands of American doctors, hoping that risky, cutting-edge surgeries might repair their injuries and give them a chance for a fresh start.
Josh Levin is One Year’s editorial director. One Year’s senior producer is Evan Chung.
This episode was produced by Kelly Jones and Evan Chung, with additional production by Sophie Summergrad.
It was edited by Joel Meyer and Derek John, Slate’s executive producer of narrative podcasts.
Merritt Jacob is our senior technical director. Holly Allen created the artwork for this season.
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| 0:00.0 | Strings and things... Strings and things |
| 0:15.1 | There's a whole range of strings and things, called strings and things, including cheese |
| 0:24.4 | strings, yollies, and cheese shapes. |
| 0:26.8 | Find them all in the cheese and york-a-tile. |
| 0:29.2 | Strings and things. |
| 0:30.7 | Before we begin, a quick note. |
| 0:32.9 | This episode contains descriptions of violence and injuries that might be disturbing to some |
| 0:37.3 | listeners. |
| 0:38.3 | Hi, Coco, this is Josh. |
| 0:42.6 | Thank you for doing this. |
| 0:43.6 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:45.0 | For finding me. |
| 0:47.8 | We found Coco Condo at her home outside of Kobe, Japan, huddled in front of a Zoom screen. |
| 0:54.1 | Whenever she turned her camera on, the internet went out, so I got only a brief glimpse of |
| 0:59.3 | where she lives, in a house that's attached to a church. |
| 1:03.2 | For Coco, this place is a throwback to how she grew up. |
| 1:07.2 | My father's a Methodist minister in church in Hiroshima. |
| 1:13.4 | As a little girl, she was always tagging along with her father and desperate to get his |
| 1:18.0 | attention. |
| 1:19.0 | There were constantly parishioners coming in and out to see him. |
| 1:23.0 | I couldn't understand why he was so busy. |
| 1:29.3 | One day in the early 1950s, a group of young women showed up, who Coco had never seen |
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