RaveJapan Today\"...stupendously ambitious and profoundly humanistic ... Sheftall is far too experienced to be one-sided. When looking into his background, you soon become in awe of how he is, indeed, the perfect kind of scholar to tackle such an immensely controversial moment ... What also separates Hiroshima from other accounts is the amount of time, patience and trust Sheftall gives to each hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) he meets. It probably won’t surprise you to learn how annoyed many hibakusha have become with Western journalists swooping in to exploit their pain and victimhood all in the pursuit of a quick headline that will inevitably be piled atop a dozen others during the first nine days in August.\
