| Term | Definition |
| *Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura | widow living w/ 3 kids and was in house when bomb dropped |
| *Dr. Terufumi Sasaki | sergeon at red cross hospital, helps lots of injered ppl after the bomb dropps, later operates on mrs sakki, then studies effects radiation poision on ppl |
| *Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge | german jesuit preist, helps many injered ppl after the bomb(above and beyond like giving his medicine to ppl as sick as he is), helps convert mrs sasaki who becomes a nun, becomes a japenese citizen and changes name to Father Makoto Takakura |
| *Toshiko Sasaki | clerk of a tin factory, after bomb a bookcase falls on her leg crippling her and she is ferried between hospitals and eventuly becomes a nun |
| *Dr. Masakazu Fujii | owns private hospital that when bomb hit collapsed into a nearby river (him inside), almost uneffected by radiation poisining but hurt so bad he couldnt help any1 at the time, goes into a coma later and dies |
| *Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto | Methodist pastor who ferries many dying people to a park safe from the fires, becomes a peace activist and tours other contries spreading his ideas and even appears on american tv shows |
| *Toshio Nakamura | nakamura's ten year old son who ends up (besides radiation poisioning) with pysocological damage mostly in nightmares and greif for his best friend he wrights a report for school about what happed the day the bomb dropped |
| Father Schiffer and Father LaSalle | preists who were helped to be evacuated by Father K and mr T |
| Father Cieslik | finds the mom of the K kids |
| Mr. Yoshida | former head of neiborhood association then gets buried in wrekaged of house and hair turns white |
| Mr. Tanaka | dying man who doesnt like christians but lets mr t read him psalms when he dies |
| Mrs. Kamai | lady in park who carries dead baby and asks mr T to find her husband who she is seperated from |
| The Kataoka children | think they lost their family (in park) are helped by father K and father C |
| Mr. Fukai | 'secretary of the diocese at the Jesuit mission' after father K carries him out he disapears (mostly likey suiside into fire) |
| Father Siemes | preist who wrights a report on the use of a bomb like that |
| Satsue Yoshiki | friend of father K who is also his cook and nurse and is whith him when he dies |
| Hiroshima Maidens | young unmarried woman disfugured by bomb mr T raises money for american plastic surgey |
| Norman Cousins | helped mr T w/ american apperances |
| Pearl Buck | a friend of mr T and an american wrighter |
| Shigeyuki Fujii | one of dr F sons and finds him poisned by gas form heater (before coma) |
| Koko Tanimoto | mr Ts daughter who who got enugh rasation as a baby she could never have childeren |