About Toge Sankichi


TOGE Sankichi (1917-53), a poet witness, writes in the prelude to Poems of
the Atomic Bomb (1951):

      "Bring back the fathers!
       Bring back the mothers!
       Bring back the old people!  Bring back the children!
       Bring me back!
       Bring back the human beings I had contact with!
       For as long as there are human beings, a world of human beings,
       bring back peace, unbroken peace."  (op. cit., p.305)

   During the Korean War, however, President Truman made a statement that
the use of atomic bomb was under consideration.  It was to warn against such
consideration that TOGE devoted himself to writing Poems of the Atomic Bomb
in the hospital.