The name of Hiroshima A-bomb survivor Sunao Tsuboi, who has been at the forefront of the nuclear weapons abolition movement for many years and died last October, was added to the list of atomic bomb victims on the 29th.
Every year, the list of survivors of the A-bomb will be added with the names of new survivors who have died or confirmed to have died, and will be placed in the A-bomb memorial monument at the Peace Memorial Ceremony held in Hiroshima City on August 6.
On the 29th, the name of Mr. Sunao Tsuboi, who was the chairman of the Hiroshima Prefectural Atomic Bomb Victims Association, who died at the Takanobashi Staff Hall in Hiroshima City at the age of 96 last October, was newly recorded. rice field.
Mr. Tsuboi was exposed to the atomic bomb near Hiroshima City Hall, 1.2 km away from the hypocenter, when he was 20 years old when he was attending Hiroshima University.
After that, as a junior high school teacher, he continued to tell his students about the horror of the atomic bomb, and after he retired, he also focused on activities to testify to the reality of the atomic bombing abroad.
Six years ago, when he visited Hiroshima and appealed to President Obama of the United States for the abolition of nuclear weapons, while his fellow hibakusha died one after another, he was at the forefront of the movement toward the realization of a world without nuclear weapons with the word "never give up." I kept standing.
Nobuko Nakamoto (80), who wrote her name, was also an A-bomb survivor and said, "I was grateful that I wrote my name. He was a very precious person who worked for me. "
According to the city of Hiroshima, the list contains the names of 328,929 people who died in the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, and as of the 28th, 4,869 new people will be added.