On the morning of 6 August 1945, Michiko slept in.
"I wanted to, 'make it to take a shot at time on the off chance that I get the later train, yet I despite everything may get my typical train on the off chance that I hurry to the station'," she composed, years after the fact, in a record of the day.
"I rushed to Yokogawa station, and I hopped on my typical train just under the wire."
Michiko's run spared her life. It implied she was securely inside her work environment when her city - Hiroshima - was hit by the main atomic bomb at any point utilized in war.
"On the off chance that I had missed my standard train, I would have passed on somewhere close to Yokogawa station and Hiroshima station," she composed.
Michiko Yoshitsuka, 14, was an understudy at a young ladies' school in the core of Hiroshima. In any case, when the city enrolled younger students for the war exertion, she'd began working at the Toyo Kogyo plant, 8km (5 miles) east of the downtown area, making weapons for the Imperial Japanese Army.
In the event that she oversleeped that day, it was through weariness instead of sluggishness.
She spent extended periods of time at the manufacturing plant. The war had prompted far reaching food deficiencies, so she was tormented by hunger, and the earlier night - in the same way as other evenings before it - US B-29 planes had flown over Hiroshima, activating air strike alarms.
The all-reasonable alarm had sounded at around 7am.
However, nobody outside the Manhattan Project - the US government research bunch that built up the nuclear bombs - could have anticipated the obliteration that was to come.
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