Hiroshima atom bomb survivor warns Philippines: Don’t go nuclear FEATURE By Michaela P. del Callar 12/12/2011

Hiroshima atom bomb survivor warns Philippines: Don’t go nuclear

FEATURE

By Michaela P. del Callar 12/12/2011
HIROSHIMA – Mito Kosei has the strongest arguments in the world against nuclear power.

A living anti-nuke symbol, the 65-year-old man walks around his southern Japanese city of Hiroshima everyday, telling as many people as he can of the horrors that nuclear technology wrought on his country twice, 66 years apart.

Mito tells his first story by drawing a pink, worn-out card issued by the Japanese government, which identifies him as one of more than 219,000 “hibakusha,” or “explosion-affected people,” who survived the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 near the end of World War II.

Decades after the horrific destruction and human suffering caused by the Hiroshima bombing, the first-ever use of an atom bomb by man in war, relations between Japan and the United States have warmed and both have become modern-day military allies..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111212hed4.html