Sumiteru Taniguchi died from cancer at a hospital in the southwestern Japanese city at the age of 88 earlier this week.
A NAGASAKI victim who was delivering letters when the US dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city on 1945 has died.
Sumiteru Taniguchi died from cancer at a hospital in the southwestern Japanese city at the age of 88 earlier this week, according to Nihon Hidankyo, a group that represents survivors of the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Taniguchi, once considered a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize, was only 16 when the attack happened in the closing days of the Second World War, suffered horrific burns to his back and left arm that took years to heal properly.
He had been riding his bicycle just a mile from the centre of the blast.
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He became one of the few early faces of the bombing aftermath when US military pictures of him recovering in hospital, his entire back an agonising slab of melted flesh, were beamed around the world.
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“I want the younger generations to remember that nuclear weapons will never save humanity. It is an illusion to believe that the nuclear umbrella will protect us.”
