M.G. Sheftall: An older man with gray hair and glasses sits in front of a bookshelf, with a map visible in the background.

M.G. Sheftall

M.G. Sheftall, author of Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (2025) and Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses (2024), is a professor of modern Japanese cultural history and communication at Shizuoka University, where his research specializes in the war experiences of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers and civilians. He has lived in Japan since 1987.

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Giant mushroom cloud seen over the city of Nagasaki, with a car and people in the foreground.

The 'plan B' drop site that day, it was almost spared.