The Diary of Yoko Moriwaki - The Play

Hello

I am Dan Abella. I am the writer and producer of the play The Diary of Yoko Moriwaki. This play is based on the diary of a young Japanese girl, Yoko Moriwaki, who was given a diary as part of her school project. Yoko attended the First Hiroshima Girls High School and was very happy to be part of this exclusive high school. She wrote extensively from April 6 to August 5, 1945.

On August 6, 1945, Yoko was cleaning up some rubble as part of a school demolition project. She was 700 meters from the epicenter of the Hiroshima blast. She died from radiation burns in an evacuation center later that evening.

The play and the diary are a testament to a young girl who was looking to become a piano teacher but instead was killed in the Hiroshima atomic explosion. Just like Anne Frank, her western counterpart who died in the Holocaust, the first casualty of war are the innocents.

Very few people know of Yoko's story, and we are now raising funds to have a screening of the play in New York City in the fall. Your donation will go to help spread awareness about the dangers of atomic war.