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Sunao Tsuboi (坪井 直, Tsuboi Sunao, May 5, 1925 – October 24, 2021) [1] was a Japanese anti-nuclear, anti-war activist, and teacher. He was a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and was the co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japan-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers. [2]
Sunao Tsuboi, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who made opposing nuclear weapons the message of his life, including in a meeting with President Barack Obama in 2016, has died. Tsuboi ...
Hiroshima: In Memoriam and Today is a collection of stories of survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. It was edited by Hitoshi Takayama. It also contains a number of opinions and messages from world leaders including Pope John Paul II, Australian Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, South African President F.W. de Klerk and UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.
Her friend died a week later from radiation poisoning. Katsuji Yoshida, 13 years old. Yoshida incurred several injuries in the blast, including severe burns disfiguring the right side of his face. Sunao Tsuboi, 20 years old. At the time of the bombing, Tsuboi majored in science at a Hiroshima University. Shuntaro Hida, 28 years old. Military ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
The word hibakusha is Japanese, originally written in kanji.While the term hibakusha 被爆者 (hi 被 ' particle indicating passive mood of the subsequent verb ' + baku 爆 ' to bomb ' + sha 者 ' person ') has been used before in Japanese to designate any victim of bombs, its worldwide democratization led to a definition concerning the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan by the ...
The true story behind The Boys in the Boat. Joe Rantz was born on 31 March 1914 in Spokane, Washington. His mother, Nellie, died from throat cancer when he was just four and he went on to have a ...
The boy standing by the crematory (1945). This is the original version of the photo, which was flipped horizontally in O'Donnell's reproduction. [1]The Boy Standing by the Crematory (alternatively The Standing Boy of Nagasaki) is a historic photograph taken in Nagasaki, Japan, in October of 1945, shortly after the atomic bombing of that city on August 9, 1945.