“Through meeting (members of the future generation) at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, I have been able to contemplate people and their way of life.

Akito Kawamoto”

“My home was 4km away from the hypocenter. I happened to be on a train back home from Kyushu when the bomb was dropped, so I was not directly exposed to the bomb. However, I am considered a nyushi hibakusha because I spent the next few days looking for my wife in bomb-ridden Hiroshima, and was exposed to radiation as a result.

When my wife began to suffer genbakusho (diseases related to the atomic bomb) fifteen years into our marriage, her pain quickly became my pain.”