Business Standard

Wednesday, January 08, 2025 | 01:02 PM ISTEN Hindi

Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Hiroshi Nakagawa

Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor, who devoted his life for peace, dies at 93

Shigemi Fukahori, a survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki atomic bombing, who devoted his life to advocating for peace has died. He was 93. Fukahori died at a hospital in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Jan 3, the Urakami Catholic Church, where he prayed almost daily until last year, said on Sunday. Local media reported he died of old age. The church, located about 500 meters from ground zero and near the Nagasaki Peace Park, is widely seen as a symbol of hope and peace, as its bell tower and some statues and survived the nuclear bombing. Fukahori was only 14 when the U.S. dropped the bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, killing tens of thousands of people, including his family. That came three days after the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Japan surrendered days later, ending World War II and the country's nearly half-century of aggression across Asia. Fukahori, who worked at a shipyard about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from where the bomb dropped, couldn't talk about w

Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor, who devoted his life for peace, dies at 93
Updated On : 05 Jan 2025 | 4:11 PM IST

Hiroshi Nakagawa takes over as chairman of Isuzu Motors

Hiroyasu Miura, the former chairman of Isuzu Motors will take over as the chairman & managing director of IEBCI

Hiroshi Nakagawa takes over as chairman of Isuzu Motors
Updated On : 14 Sep 2016 | 8:25 PM IST