Ayaka Sakurai works with the Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center to help hibakusha receive the medical care they need, including the biannual medical checkups by doctors from Hiroshima. She talks about moving to California and describes how she met her husband, a doctor named Yutaka Sakurai. She describes how she became involved in using her time and money, as well as her language skills, for volunteer work. She talks about her husband's family's long history with the U.S., beginning with his grandfather, and describes her husband's history of working in California as the head of the Providence Ningen Dock Center. Ayaka's husband's older brother went into Hiroshima after the bombing and was exposed to radiation, leading to cancer later in his life, and although her husband couldn't treat his own brother, he feels that by treating other hibakusha he is helping in his own way.
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