Shortly after 3:00 p.m. on August 10, 1945, the day after the Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped and exploded, a nurse from the JRC No. 713 Rescue Team bandaged and dressed the burns on the face and arms of an atomic bomb survivor at a temporary relief station set up in front of Michinoo Station on the Nagasaki Main Line.

     Shortly after 3:00 p.m. on August 10, 1945, the day after the Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped and exploded, a nurse bandaged and dressed the burns on the face and arms of an atomic bomb victim at a temporary first-aid station set up in front of Michinoo Station on the Nagasaki Main Line. Michinoo Station was located approximately 3.6 km north of the hypocenter. The nurse providing aid was a member of the Japanese Red Cross 713th Rescue Squad, which was formed by the Saga Prefecture branch of the Japanese Red Cross Society. The JRCS 713th Rescue Team left Saga City for Nagasaki City by train at around 4:30 a.m. on August 10.

　　The nurse in the photo is 19-year-old Nishikubo Kikuno (maiden name Tsurumaru), who was working at Saga Army Hospital at the time. On August 10, 1945, the day after she was exposed to the atomic bomb, Nishikubo Kikuno was photographed in a temporary relief station at Michinoo Station, where six photographs were taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a news photographer for the Japanese Army. In 1978, 21 years after the end of the war, his eldest son, who was attending college in Tokyo, died suddenly of leukemia at the young age of 21. She later quit her job as a nurse because she felt responsible for her eldest son's death from the atomic bombing because she had gone out to help with the relief efforts.

　After the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, rescue teams were dispatched from within Nagasaki Prefecture and from other prefectures. Because the entire area of Nagasaki City was destroyed, the small Michinoo Station on the Nagasaki Main Line became the frontline station for rescuing and transporting A-bomb survivors. Located about 3.5 km from the hypocenter, Michinoo Station was partially walled off and window glass shattered when the Nagasaki atomic bomb exploded. The Michino-o Station building was not severely damaged, and a temporary relief station was set up in the plaza in front of the station to serve as the starting point for relief trains on the Nagasaki Main Line. The temporary relief station was filled with dying A-bomb survivors. At the temporary relief station at Michinoo Station, about 200 A-bomb survivors were housed in two rather overhanging huts. The total number of people transported by the relief train amounted to about 3,500. The lines waiting for their turn to board the train never stopped, and both the platform and the plaza at Michinoeki were filled with A-bomb survivors.