Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivor Video Messages Approach 100

Mainichi Shimbun

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"Kill me, nephew." A man who was exposed to the atomic bomb in Nagasaki at the age of four years and eight months and who cried out in excruciating pain from the burns he sustained died last year at the age of 83 from esophageal cancer. A-bomb survivors are aging, and their numbers are rapidly decreasing. Ogata Arina, a reporter at the Nagasaki branch who has been working on recording the testimonies of atomic bomb survivors, is looking ahead to…