all of them died except for one, 9-year-old sachiko kurikawa.achiko was carrying her little sister on her back when she was knocked off her feet by the blast. she was found half-buried near the entrance. in july, the story of sachiko's survival was unveiled for the first time in the form of traditional picture boards. they are the work of shizuko mitamura. mitamura also lived through the atomic bomb attack. for over 30 years now, she has worked as a volunteer guide, explaining to the school children who visit nagasaki about what happened on that day. a sign at the peace park says that everyone in the area died, apart from one 9-year-old girl. mitamura had long wondered who that one person was who managed to survive so miraculously. >> translator: it's so close to the ground zero, it's amazing that she survived. eventually i decided i had to find out more about this story for myself. >> reporter: through another survivor, mitamura learned that sachiko, the girl who survived, was still alive. mitamura decided to contact her. up to now, sachiko had

sachiko kishida has the latest for us from tokyo. >> toyota halt theed operations its factory.armaker had 400 made at the plant last year and will decide whether to resume operations. suzuki stopped local production right after a state of emergency was declared. but the company said there has been no damage to the factory. sumitomo electric industries which makes wire harness in egypt, evacuated japanese workers out of the country. many japanese companies see egypt as the key market to enter into african region. around 60 japanese firms are placing their headquarters for the region in egypt, and direct investment in the country from japan went up 90% in 2011. many exporter shares including these companies dropped in the tokyo market today. toyota down just a fraction, suzuki fell 1.6%, and sumitomo electric dropped 1.4%. carolin, back to you. >> thank you so much for that. we just got an e-mail in from our correspondent yousuf in cairo. he writes that there are tank movements, the army sealing off the square and this follows the decision to close all access roads to tahrir squa

with more now, sachiko kishida from the nikkei. has more for us. >> prime minister abe has not yet decided to go ahead with the sales tax hike, but if he does, it is likely he may propose a corporate tax reduction along with it. tokyo-based firms payed an effective tax rate of 35.64% in fiscal 2012. one of the highest in the world. prime minister abe has already called for tax breaks to promote capital spending as part of his economic growth strategy. but such narrow incentives would do little to stimulate domestic investment and he fears that just raising the sales tax could delay his goal of ending deflation. the government is also looking to pass additional capital spending incentives this fall. it is essential for the government to carry out both deregulation measures to boost the economy, but a loss of tax revenue would hit japan hard as the country has a debt more than twice as big as its gdp. back to you. >> thank you for that. >>> japan's core machinery orders continue to fall in june, down 2.7% month on month. but the good