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Hiroko Nakamoto is a Japanese interior designer, also known for being a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and a peace activist.

Early Life
Hiroko Nakamoto was born in Japan, and grew up in the city of Hiroshima.

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
Hiroko Nakamoto was walking to work a mile away from the city center when the Atomic Bomb went off. After being knocked unconscious and suffering facial injuries she was able to eventually make her way to to the assistance of a doctor and nurse. Her mother and sister died in the attack.

Education following Hiroshima
Hiroko Nakamoto would graduate from Hiroshima Jogakuin College in 1950, earning a degree in English literature. She later gained a scholarship to attend Bowling Green State University, with her travel to the United States was sponsored by the Northwest Indiana conference of the Methodist church through a missionary she met in Japan during the 1950's.

Following her graduation from Bowling Green State University, she studied interior design at the Brooklyn campus of the Pratt Institute. She graduated in 1955.

Career and Activism
Hiroko Nakamoto wrote a book detailing her early life titled My Japan 1930-1951, which was published by McGraw Hill. In a review published in the New York Times, Faubion Bowers described the book as powerful, and notes the sorrowful tone of the beginning of the book, contrasted with the happy tone near the end of the book.

On June 9th, 1973 Hiroko Nakamoto was awarded the Bowling Green State University Distinguished Alumnus Award during the spring commencement. By this point she had an Interior Design Studio in Tokyo, Japan. Her notable works include interior design work for the royal domicile of Prince Mikasa, as well as the Netherlands Embassy in Tokyo and New Zealand Embassy in Tokyo.

Hiroko Nakamoto was interviewed for the Thames Television documentary The World at War.