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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 11:02 AM Aug 2017

Sumiteru Taniguchi, Nagasaki Survivor and Nuclear Arms Foe, Dies at 88

Source: New York Times

Sumiteru Taniguchi, Nagasaki Survivor and Nuclear Arms Foe, Dies at 88

By MOTOKO RICH AUG. 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. Overcoming a lifetime of debilitating pain and radiation-related illnesses, he lived to 88. ... The cause of death was duodenal papilla cancer, according to Fumie Kakita, secretary general of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council.

Mr. Taniguchi was one of about 165,000 remaining survivors known in Japan as hibakusha of the nuclear bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With their average age now over 81, their voices are dying out.

After I received the news of his death, I realized the era when there are hibakusha is getting closer to the end, Tomihisa Taue, the mayor of Nagasaki, told NHK, the public broadcaster. 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 Hiroshima in the first atomic attack in history. About 74,000 people were killed in Nagasaki, about half as many as had died in Hiroshima. Six days after the Nagasaki attack, Japan surrendered, ending World War II.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/world/asia/taniguchi-nagasaki-atomic-bomb.html



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Sumiteru Taniguchi, atomic bomb survivor and antinuclear activist, dies at 88 in Nagasaki


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Sumiteru Taniguchi, Nagasaki Survivor and Nuclear Arms Foe, Dies at 88 (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2017 OP
requiescat in pace niyad Aug 2017 #1
Hurled into hell on earth when he was 16. What a bitter shame. n/t Judi Lynn Sep 2017 #2
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