to visit Hiroshima in August 1952 for the dedication of a "palace of prayer", which Lewis accepted; however, there is no record of Lewis actually making such a visit. The two also appeared together at Fordham University in 1957, on the twelfth anniversary of the bombing, with Schiffer noting that they had become "very fast friends." Schiffer later met pilot Paul Tibbets in Dallas in 1975. Schiffer, who had received a bachelor's degree in Japan, received a master's degree from Fordham University in 1952, and a doctorate there in 1958. In the 1960s, Schiffer worked as an associate professor of economics at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, and wrote a book on the Japanese banking system. See also Julia Canny Hibakusha Works References Further reading External links 1915 births 1982 deaths 20th-century German Jesuits Hibakusha German Roman Catholic missionaries Roman Catholic missionaries in Japan