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Atomic bomb survivors call for elimination of nukes at int'l meeting

WASHINGTON, Japan - (From L to R) Setsuko Thurlow, 77, and 80-year-old Mikiso Iwasa and Shoo Michigami -- survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- answer questions from reporters at a news conference in Washington D.C. on Feb. 14 after they called for the elimination of nuclear weapons at a meeting of an international nuclear nonproliferation commission there. Speaking for the first time before the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, the survivors sought a new trend toward nuclear arms abolition on the occasion of the launch last month of the administration of new U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Atomic bomb survivors call for elimination of nukes at int'l meet

WASHINGTON, Japan - (From L to R) Setsuko Thurlow, 77, and 80-year-old Mikiso Iwasa and Shoo Michigami -- survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- answer questions from reporters at a news conference in Washington D.C. on Feb. 14 after they called for the elimination of nuclear weapons at a meeting of an international nuclear nonproliferation commission there. Speaking for the first time before the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, the survivors sought a new trend toward nuclear arms abolition on the occasion of the launch last month of the administration of new U.S. President Barack Obama. (Kyodo)

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At least 3 A-bomb survivors to attend Obama Hiroshima visit event

Undated combined photo shows (From L) Sunao Tsuboi, Mikiso Iwasa and Terumi Tanaka, who were in Hiroshima or Nagasaki during the U.S. atomic bombings in August 1945. At least those three will attend an event on May 27, 2016 at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, where President Barack Obama is expected to lay flowers as the first sitting U.S. head of state to visit the city, according to officials of atomic bomb survivors' groups. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima A-bomb survivor recounts ordeal at Tokyo event

Mikiso Iwasa, 86, talks about his experience of seeing an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 during an event held in Tokyo on Oct. 17, 2015, to mark the 70th anniversary of the World War II nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man talks about life as orphan after A-bombing of Hiroshima

Mikiso Iwasa, 86, recounts his experience of living as an orphan in the postwar era after losing his mother and younger sister in the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima during an interview in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on July 6, 2015. His father had died of illness in May 1945. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hibakusha organization adviser Iwasa dies

Photo taken in January 2018 shows Mikiso Iwasa, adviser to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. Iwasa, who was in Hiroshima during the U.S. atomic bombing in August 1945, died of pancreatic cancer on Sept. 7, 2020, at his home in Chiba Prefecture at age 91.