Nagasaki native Kosuzu Harada has spent over a decade sharing the harrowing atomic bomb experiences of her late grandfather, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, one of the few individuals officially recognized as having survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Speaking after nuclear survivor group Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 50-year-old Harada expressed hope that the recognition would mark a global “turning point” in understanding the plight of atomic bomb survivors.
Yamaguchi, an engineer at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Nagasaki Shipyard, was on a business trip to Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, when the first bomb struck. He was walking to the company’s Hiroshima shipyard when a blinding flash filled the sky.
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