Powerful AP photos show the scars of a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing
Nagasaki, Japan (AP) – 80th anniversary of atomic bombing Nagasaki, Associated Press from Japan re -publishing the extraordinary photographs of a person who survived the attack.
Sumiteru Taniguchi, who died in 2017, was 16 years old when a US B-29 fell the bomb in the city. The scars on his back burned out of the explosion, and on August 9, 1945, he carried a silent witness with an unprecedented testimony.
Originally published in 2015 by Eugene Hoshiko, Eugene Hoshiko in Tokyo, shows more than the remains of excessive trauma. Taniguchi saw them as warnings, and the evidence shown freely could not say that no one has seen. Terrible results of nuclear war.
Even after his death, Taniguchi’s legacy continues. As the co -chairman of Nihon Hidankyo Survivors of US atomic bombings He helped the leading activists from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who have been putting an end to nuclear weapons for decades.
When Nihon Hidankyo is given Nobel Peace Prize in 2024Many of them remembered Taniguchi’s silent, unchanging sound and scars that he refused to hide it.
Here are the original story published on the 70th anniversary of the attacks since 2015:
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Sumiteru Taniguchi, who has been struggling with a left arm that was never corrected, undressed his weak 86 -year -old 86 -year -old 86 -year -old body to show two visitors from the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki.
For 70 years, he lived with them, the remnants of three ribs that cover a wound network and half of his back, and permanently pressing his lungs and making it difficult to breathe. His wife still applies a moisturizing cream every morning to reduce irritation from scars. One day does not pass without suffering.
The strong explosion was 16 years old when he threw him off his bike, and as a letter carrier. On August 9, 1945, it was about 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) from the central base of the Plutonium bomb, which exploded on Nagasaki and killed more than 70,000 people. Six days later, Japan surrendered and II. He ended World War II.
Speaking in a weak voice with some effort, he said that wandering for three days last month was unaware of the seriousness of their injuries. He felt something like an irregular cloth hanging from his back, shoulder and arm: his skin.
He would spend the next 21 months in his stomach, treating his burnt back, separating the meat and passing the open bones. As he entered and left the consciousness, he could hear that the nurses passing through the corridor were still asking each other if they were still breathing. He thought: “Just kill me.”
As he remained still for a long time, as one of the young arm bones grew, he prevented the joint in the elbow, so he couldn’t fully extend the arm.
Taniguchi hopes that no one will suffer the pain of nuclear weapons. Although old age and pneumonia make it difficult for him to play an active role, he presides a Nagasaki Survivors group working against nuclear proliferation. Many years later, his words were disappointed.
Orum I want it to be the last, ”he said, scrolling his shirt again.
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This is a photo gallery curated by Associated Press photo editors.
