Kiyoshi Tanimoto

Kiyoshi Tanimoto
谷本 清
Kiyoshi Tanimoto, c. 1950
Born(1909-06-27)June 27, 1909
Sakaide, Kagawa, Japan
DiedSeptember 29, 1986(1986-09-29) (aged 77)
Hiroshima, Japan
Alma materKwansei Gakuin University
Emory University
OccupationMethodist minister
SpouseChisa Tanimoto (d. 2011)
Children5 (including Koko)

Kiyoshi Tanimoto (谷本 清, Tanimoto Kiyoshi; June 27, 1909 – September 28, 1986) was a Japanese Methodist minister famous for his humanitarian work for the Hiroshima Maidens. Tanimoto was a U.S educated Methodist minister and moved to Hiroshima with his wife during the midst of World War II. He survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and was one of the six Hiroshima survivors whose experiences of the bomb and later life are portrayed in John Hersey's book Hiroshima.

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