4 April 2018
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2018 Peace Boat Hibakusha Project Global Voyage
for a Nuclear-Free World
Participant Overview
■Participant
Profiles
Mr UEDA Koji
Hiroshima survivor (exposed to the atomic bomb at age 3), born 15
February 1942. Lives in Hachioji City, Tokyo Prefecture.
Mr Ueda was exposed to radiation after he entered Hiroshima City with his mother
to check upon the damage to their home, which had stood just 400m from the
hypocenter. He was the Deputy Secretary General of the Tokyo A-Bomb Survivor
Association and former Secretary General of the Hachioji A-Bomb Survivor
Association. He visited Washington DC in 2003, and attended the NPT Review
Conference in 2005. The same year he visited Los Alamos to view the factory
which manufactured atomic bombs. He communicated the reality of atomic
weapons to civil society at the 2010 NPT Review conference. In Japan he speaks
about his experience of the bombing to many groups, including exchange students
and school groups from elementary age to university level.
Ms KURAMORI Terumi
Nagasaki survivor (exposed to the atomic bomb at age 1), born 8 January
1944. Lives in Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture.
Ms Kuramori was 5.8km from the hypcenter at the time of the explosion, but she,
her mother and young siblings survived as they were in a bomb shelter at the time.
As she was so young, she has no memory of that day, but she has devoted herself to
ensuring that Nagasaki is the last place nuclear weapons are ever used. In March
2017 she attended an event with students from the
“High School Student Campaign
for 10,000 Signatures” and A-Bomb
survivors living in Korea, at which she gave
her testimony and participated in an exchange and opinion sharing session.
■2
Generation
Hibakusha/Legacy
Messenger
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Ms SHINAGAWA Kaoru
2 generation Hiroshima survivor. Born 10 June 1950. Lives in Hiroshima
City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Hiroshima City Volunteer Guide.
Ms Shinagawa's mother, then 25, was working at a tobacco processing plant 2km
from the hypocenter when she experienced the atomic bombing. She never had a
chance to hear about this story from her mother, but works tirelessly to teach about
peace and the horrors of atomic weapons as a volunteer guide in Hiroshima. She
regularly escorts school groups and visitors from around the world.
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