THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 25, 2020 at 06:00 JST
Sunao Tsuboi, center, a representative committee member of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo), exchanges words with U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the city’s Naka Ward on May 27, 2016, with Mikiso Iwasa, far right, also a committee member, in attendance. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Mikiso Iwasa, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and a giant in the hibakusha movement to rid the world of nuclear weapons, died at his home in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, of pancreatic cancer on Sept. 7. He was 91. [Read More]
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