Today, the book is being published by Random House’s Modern Library under the title Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir. My involvement in bringing his memoir to the public began with a trip I took to Japan two years ago. As a side project to the Hersey film, Rosenfeld hoped to publish Tanimoto’s memoir. (In the memoir, Tanimoto notes his spelling skills were lacking.) Tanimoto’s memoir is more than a historical document.