Pikadon / Big Sudden Flash

Kikujiro Fukushima
Pikadon / Big Sudden Flash

Photographs: Kikujiro Fukushima

Text: Kikujiro Fukushima

Publisher: Tokyo Chunichi Shinbun 

122 pages

Year: 1961

Comments: Softcover under dust jacket, 260 x 185 mm. Printed in gravure. Some tears on the jacket. Inside in good condition.

“In 1949, however, Mr Nakamura became so weak that he could no longer go out fishing. Although his wife worked desperately, they sometimes couldn’t buy sufficient food.
Such misery was not limited to Mr. Nakamura alone. More than 100,000 who escaped the city of death and somehow managed to live also experienced this kind of phenomenon: […] vicious anaemia, unusually rapid increase of erythrocytes and succen occurrence of cancer.
But what pushed the people to the bottom of fear were rumours that a brainless child had been born, or that one-eyed babies had been born.”

Kikujiro Fukushima’s essay “Big Sudden Flash”