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"A physician, [who] had just sat down to read the paper on the porch of his private hospital..."
"Dr. Fujii was a middle-aged man who was also comfortable financially since he owned his own private thirty room hospital, which was destroyed when it fell into the river after the bomb went off. Being fairly self-absorbed, he enjoyed fine whiskey, relaxation, and the company of foreigners. He was not completely unsympathetic to those around him, but throughout the book was fairly focused on himself. His hospital is completely destroyed in the blast and he is moderately injured, but he recovers his health when he goes to visit his friend, Mr. Okuma, in Fukawa. Eventually Mr. Okuma's summer home is washed away by a vicious tidal wave and Mr. Okuma and Dr. Fujii are forced to move in with a peasant. After hearing about a vacant private clinic in Kaitaichi, he buys it and starts up his personal practice once again. He lives comfortably as a doctor for many years, and even rebuilds his old private clinic on the same site as his first one. He had 5 children, and was even selected to go to America with the 'Hiroshima Maidens'. Many years later he was tragically disabled by a freak gas leak which left him in an 11 year comatose state until January 12th, 1973, when he passed away."
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