Throughout Sumiteru Taniguchi's life, the scars he bore were a living testament to the international community about the harsh reality of the atomic bombings. Taniguchi, who died in 2017 at age ...
NAGASAKI--Sumiteru Taniguchi was 16 and delivering mail when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Although horrifically injured, he survived to speak out against nuclear weapons.
On August 9, 1945, the day an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki, 16-year-old Taniguchi Sumiteru was delivering mail on his bicycle about two kilometers from ground zero. The blast threw him into ...