75 years on, Japan bomb survivors make final pleas for abolition | via nytimes
TOKYO - As Japan marks 75 years since the devastating attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the last generation of nuclear bomb survivors are working to ensure their message lives on after them.
The average age of a survivor now is a little over 83, according to Japan's health ministry, lending an urgency as they share their testimonies and call for a ban on nuclear weapons. But he recognizes that the community of those who lived through the attacks is shrinking, and their message will have to be passed on by others in the decades to come."We set up a group called No More Hibakusha Project, which works on preserving records as archives, including what we've written... so that can use them in their campaigns."Tanaka worries at times that interest is fading, acknowledging that speeches by hibakusha often attract no more than a handful of people.
When they finally reached his father's office, they found only "something resembling his body". All they could retrieve were a few metal items that survived the flames -- a belt buckle, a key and part of his wallet.
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