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A twenty-five-year-old surgeon at the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima, Dr. Sasaki is hardworking, idealistic, and ambitious. We learn the extent of his selflessness early, when Hersey describes how he risks penalties by treating sick patients in the suburbs without a permit.
Sasaki, one of the only uninjured doctors left in the city, seems to have gone into a state of shock following the explosion. In emergencies, people sometimes behave as Sasaki does here: they become automatons, shedding emotion and calmly doing exactly what they need to do.
Miss Sasaki is transferred to the Red Cross Hospital in Hiroshima and placed under the care of Dr. Sasaki. Dr. Sasaki notices small hemorrhages all over her bare skin, a mysterious symptom many of his patients are beginning to show.
Because the Japanese revere their dead and feel that it is their duty to give them proper rites of burial, Dr. Sasaki is haunted by the hundreds of bodies that were not correctly disposed of according to his cultural/religious beliefs.
After the bombing, Toshiko Sasaki’s situation was probably bleaker than that of any of the other main character in the book: not only was her body injured, but she’d also lost her fiancé and her family.
Miss Sasaki, now Sasaki-san in Hersey’s narrative, works in orphanages for a time and has three operations to help repair her leg, which never fully recovers. With the urging of Father Kleinsorge, she takes her vows in 1957 and becomes a nun, Sister Dominique Sasaki.
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Dr. Terufumi Sasaki. A young doctor in the Red Cross Hospital, and one of the six central characters of Hiroshima. Dr. Sasaki is one of the only uninjured doctors left in Hiroshima after the bombing, and, as a result, he gets to work tending to the wounded almost immediately.
