Aiko Tokitō was 16 years old and alone at home when she survived the Hiroshima bombing. She was permanently injured in the blast, having lost the feeling in one of her little fingers. She describes how she was able to find her older sister a week later, but lost track of her mother, who was badly burned, and never saw her again. After the war, she was able to attend school at Hiroshima Joshi Senmon Gakkō and moved to Tōkyō to work after graduation. She was married in 1956 and moved to Hawaii throguh her husband's job in 1969, where she worked at a department store for 20 years. She talks about how she wasn't really conscious of her status as a hibakusha, and she doesn't recall encountering much discrimination in Hawaii.
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