Sumiteru Taniguchi, Nagasaki Survivor and Nuclear Arms Foe, Dies at 88
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Sumiteru Taniguchi, Nagasaki Survivor and Nuclear Arms Foe, Dies at 88
Taniguchi said that I am determined to keep telling the reality of nuclear war as one of the living witnesses,
Mr. Taniguchi was one of about 165,000 remaining survivors — known in Japan as hibakusha — of the nuclear bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"I think we can truly show our gratitude to Mr. Taniguchi when I can pass on the baton of his wish, which is
that the same thing never happens again, and that there will be no more hibakusha." The United States dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, a port city, on Aug. 9, 1945, three days after it had leveled the city of Hiroshima in the first atomic attack in history.
In 2006, Mr. Taniguchi was appointed chairman of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council,
and in 2010 he gave a speech at the United Nations in New York during a meeting to consider a nonproliferation treaty.
That footage was shared across the world, and Mr. Taniguchi became known as "the boy with a red back." When giving speeches calling for the abolition
of nuclear weapons, he would sometimes show pictures of his burns to illustrate the horrible suffering that resulted from the bombings.
31, 2017
TOKYO — Sumiteru Taniguchi, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a teenager
and went on to become a leading advocate for nuclear disarmament, died on Wednesday in Nagasaki.
Taniguchi said that I am determined to keep telling the reality of nuclear war as one of the living witnesses,
Mr. Taniguchi was one of about 165,000 remaining survivors — known in Japan as hibakusha — of the nuclear bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"I think we can truly show our gratitude to Mr. Taniguchi when I can pass on the baton of his wish, which is
that the same thing never happens again, and that there will be no more hibakusha." The United States dropped the bomb on Nagasaki, a port city, on Aug. 9, 1945, three days after it had leveled the city of Hiroshima in the first atomic attack in history.
In 2006, Mr. Taniguchi was appointed chairman of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council,
and in 2010 he gave a speech at the United Nations in New York during a meeting to consider a nonproliferation treaty.
That footage was shared across the world, and Mr. Taniguchi became known as "the boy with a red back." When giving speeches calling for the abolition
of nuclear weapons, he would sometimes show pictures of his burns to illustrate the horrible suffering that resulted from the bombings.
31, 2017
TOKYO — Sumiteru Taniguchi, who survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a teenager
and went on to become a leading advocate for nuclear disarmament, died on Wednesday in Nagasaki.