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Lingering legacy of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing

“I wanted to pass on the fact that the atomic bombing does not end only with the sufferings of the generation of people who were directly exposed.”

Hibakusha writes to his dead child, BY HAJIMU TAKEDA THE ASAHI SHIMBUN, 3 Aug 2010, An 81-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has written a letter addressed to his stillborn daughter, expressing his anguish at the possibility that his exposure to radiation was responsible for her fate.

The man is one of a number of hibakusha who responded to a request from The Asahi Shimbun to write to the person to whom they most wanted to pass on their experiences, on the occasion of the 65th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The man, who has not confessed his feelings even to his wife, later spoke on condition he was not identified…………he insisted that the contents of the letter be published.

“I wanted to pass on the fact that the atomic bombing does not end only with the sufferings of the generation of people who were directly exposed.”

asahi.com（朝日新聞社）：Hibakusha writes to his dead child – English

August 3, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive