The Hiroshima Library is always adding to its collection, including through donations made by individuals, publishers, and institutions. We are always seeking/accepting donations of books, magazines, pamphlets, movies (VHS, DVD), audio records (vinyl, cassettes, CDs), in any condition (falling apart to new). If you are interested in donating, contact Brandon Shimoda at brandonshimoda@gmail.com.

We are also seeking the following books:

Akiko Mikamo, 8:15: A True Story of Survival and Forgiveness in Hiroshima

Atsuhiro Ozaki, The Song of Hiroshima

Cathy Caruth, Trauma: Explorations in Memory

Chong Ki-Sheok, Black Flower in the Sky: Poems of a Korean Bridegroom in Hiroshima

Eiichiro Ochiai, Hiroshima to Fukushima: Biohazards of Radiation

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire: Japanese Photographs Documenting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Fujio Hironobu, Truth of Nagasaki

Gavan McCormack, Twice Victims: Koreans at Hiroshima

Greg Mitchell, Atomic Cover-up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, and the Greatest Movie Never Made

Hiromi Tsuchida, Hiroshima Monument II

The Hiroshima Murals: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki

Hiroyuki Agawa, The Devil’s Heritage

Hisako Matsubara, Cranes at Dusk

John Auxier, Ichiban: Radiation Dosimetry for the Survivors of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

John O’Brian, Camera Atomica

John Whittier Treat, Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibsuse Masuji

Kikuji Kawada, Chizu (“The Map”)

Kunito Okamura, May the Seven Rivers of Hiroshima Reach the Galaxy

Mandy Conti and David Petersen, Survivors: The A-Bombed Trees of Hiroshima

Medical Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan, edited by Ashley Oughterson

Melinda Clarke, Waymakers for Peace: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Survivors Speak 

Michael Light, 100 Suns

Mick Broderick, Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film

Mitsukuni Yoshida, Hiroshima and Beyond: A Heritage of Technology

Miyako Ishiuchi, Hiroshima

Monica Brau, The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American Censorship in Occupied Japan

Nagasaki Speaks: A Record of the Atomic Bombing

Naomi Hirahara, Hiroshima Boy

Paul Ham, Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

Ran Zwigenberg, Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture

Raúl Zurita, The Country of Planks. Tr. from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky

Reiko Tachibana, Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan

Sachi Komura Rummel, Hiroshima: Memories of a Survivor

Sadako Kurihara, Black Eggs:Poems

Sadako Okuda, A Dimly Burning Wick: Memoir from the Ruins of Hiroshima

Sankichi Tōge, Poems of the Atomic Bomb 

Sheila Fugard, Harp Song for Hiroshima

Su-nam Pak, The Other Hiroshima: Korean A-bomb Victims Tell Their Story

Takashi Nagai, ed. We of Nagasaki: The Story of Survivors in an Atomic Wasteland. Trans. Ichiro Shirato and Herbert B. L. Silverman

Takehiko Fukunaga, Shi no shima

The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections, edited by David Lowe, Cassandra Atherton, and Alyson Miller

Tomin Harada, Hiroshima Surgeon

Toshiharu and Rita Kano, Passport to Hiroshima: The Unthinkable, Inspiring Journey of a Japanese American Family

Virginia Moffa Khuri, Hiroshima: Remembering 1945 & 1958

Widows of Hiroshima: The Life Stories of Nineteen Peasant Wives, edited by Mikio Kanda, translated by Taeko Midorikawa

William J. Schull, Song Among the Ruins

Yoshiteru Kosakai, ed. A-Bomb: a City Tells Its Story

Yuki Miyamoto, Beyond the Muhhroom Cloud