86 Year Old Japan Nagasaki Nuclear Bomb Survivor Reveals Scars which Still Cause Pain 70 Years On

Physically weak Sumitery Taniguchi, who is 86-year-old recounts those tragic moments of his life  which made his region as a graveyard besieged with grief clouds. Sumitery Taniguchi recalls those sad moments involving grief of death and destruction articulating, he was merely 16 years old when the nuclear bomb exploded out in Japan while it had been 70 years as of now although the pain and impact of the disaster is bracing and bruising.

back of Sumiteru Taniguchi, after nuclear bomb

Nagasaki Nuclear Bomb Survivor Callbacks Tragedy with impertinent Wounds

America dropped its second nuclear bomb on August 9, 1945 which killed more than 70,000 Japan civilians. Sumitery Taniguchi being one of the those fortunate ones to survive the nuclear attack stated that he was thrown from his bicycle and his teenage body was nearly torn apart showing his ribs and the horrific wounds on his back occurred 70 years back.

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Sumiteru Taniguchi, 86, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, poses for a photo during an interview at his office in Nagasaki, southern Japan. For 70 years, Taniguchi, chairman of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, has lived with a web of wounds covering most of his back, and the remains of three ribs that half rotted away and permanently press against his lungs, making it hard to breathe. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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He further added “My back skin was hanging so were my shoulder and arms injured severely while I had to wander around for three days to get the medication.”  Despite being through the medication and it has been a long time since the blast Mr. Sumitery Taniguchi is ineffectual to fully straighten his left arm. Narrating his daily routine medication he says that his rubs moisturizing cream onto his scars every morning to reduce the irritation.

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Following the atomic bomb attack three of Sumitery Taniguchi ribs are 0.5 rotten which are still crusading against his lungs, departure unnatural dents and swellings in his scrawny chest. Here are few stills of Sumitery Taniguchi who survived Nagasaki nuclear bomb attack.

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Sumiteru Taniguchi, has lived a web of wounds covering most of his back, and the remains of three ribs that half rotted away and permanently press against his lungs, making it hard to breathe. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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