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Masuji Ibuse

Ibuse wrote about ordinary lives with a dry, understated humor across a long career, most famously in Black Rain (1966) — built from a real atomic-bomb survivor's diary rather than an invented account.

Black Rain

Follow the real diary behind Ibuse's Black Rain — from Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park to the small Chugoku mountain town where the survivor whose journal inspired the novel was born.