European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Much to Sako physically and psychically scarred by atomic bomb dropped an for a Hiroshima Maiden by Henry Kamm new York m1chiko Sako feels sure enough about herself and her relations Wilh others now to listen patently to compliments about her sue indulgently and put the person paying the compliment in his if i had a Normal woman sitting Here beside me youd notice the Sako Bald without for Sako to have overcome bitter to smile readily and to put visitors at ease by communicating an inner serenely after Al experience that ravaged body and soul and seemingly for nearly 32 Veart ago a a measure of her she k not atone in having overcome physical  and the Cona Anent psychic Shock from the american atom bomb dropped on Bat she exemplifies those whose return to society has been Sako was one of the Hiroshima 25 Young women brought to the United Stales in 1955 for medical treat mainly plastic for a Visi ble scars of their bums and the hideous accumulations of scar tissue called be 13 years old was Lew loan a mile from the Imus Eipur of the doing demolition work for which her Clasi bad been to caught in the she suffered catastrophic leaving her will eyes thai she could not bring to Wilh a slight she said that even if she could have she could recall nothing in Ute 10 ensuing years that she would have Felt like smiling for 10 the door of my heart was totally Sako i never left my i cursed he people that make me suffer and those who had not suf and Felt pity for in those Sako expressed her feelings openly Only in bring Back my attracted some attention when it was set to she wrote Trep Ullh Flint it Bloom been utter to amt have the body never Holt she no longer writes Sako because she is too Busy managing her household with her a Railroad and two a girl of 17 and a boy of and her work As a in those i had to write she implying that since then she has found other ways of expressing Sako most of toe credit for her  rehabilitation la the american family qua whom she cent bar ii months in America and Edward Tryon Miller of n Mujer Bat died More than the 13 which to Gether with four previous operations in restored mobility and expressive Ness to her Sako emphasizes that the natural ease with which the Mill and americans in treated her lessened her obsession with her it is a difference in National charac she the japanese looked at me with the eyes of curiosity and made me think of my ugly any woman wants to look i feel grateful to All the people of to i was nothing More than a japanese Sako withdraws from questions on the dismal but he surgeon who treated her then Tomlin said her with whom an destroyed All mirrors in the House to prevent her from seeing her one she saw her reflection in water and became so desperate she stopped speaking to whenever be stepped neigh Bors gave her pitiful Harada she  stand and the Bays her age called her her heart it much More open Sako Bat not even there Are some bitter expert she Sale was reluctant to speak of but she recalled that her Bas Bairfi family openly opposed their and she ran into opposition Mere Centy when she was proposed for election vice of lot Pano Meanen same parents said a vice president must sometimes appear in Public and should be More Mako re of i told them that an american not i was the Sakos said their children were growing up a fact confirmed by their although fear that expo sure to radiation damage might produce deformed children has not been completely american and japanese physicians said that All evidence so far Points to a hopeful but Sako said she expected her children to have to Over come some reluctance from families when their time came to the Long years of withdraw or rejection by society have made Sako More reflective and More outspoken than japanese women of her generation generally in a heavily male Domi rated she has thought about Why Only women were chosen for treatment in the United when there were Only Hiroshima men can still be Active in no matter what their physical disa Dvan she with a Beauty comes How her face looks is extremely not Only myself but Many of my friends have to go through the bitter experience of being rejected by employers when looking for a once you get it is less important but its too cruel to say to a girl in her Early 20s with terrible scars that this should not be so maybe in a Little narrow minded to say it is More important than to but that How i i am half at peace with myself Sako but i Dart think i will Ever be Able to erase the nonphysical even in the Sako said this without self and she smiled ironically when asked what kind at Lue bad planned for herself before toe wanted to be an she my friends talked me into it because i had inherited some of my mothers july 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13