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Atomic bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow

Setsuko Thurlow, an atomic bomb survivor and nuclear disarmament campaigner, meets the press at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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Atomic bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow

Setsuko Thurlow, an atomic bomb survivor and nuclear disarmament campaigner, meets the press at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 3, 2025.

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Atomic bomb survivor on nuclear weapons ban treaty meeting

Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and prominent anti-nuclear campaigner, attends an online press conference, held at the U.N. headquarters in New York, on Dec. 1, 2023, as parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons closed their second meeting the same day.

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Hiroshima marks 78th A-bomb anniversary

Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and prominent anti-nuclear campaigner, speaks at a press conference in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2023, the 78th anniversary of the attack.

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Hiroshima marks 78th A-bomb anniversary

Setsuko Thurlow (L), a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and prominent anti-nuclear campaigner, speaks at an international anti-nuclear meeting in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2023, the 78th anniversary of the attack.

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Hiroshima marks 78th A-bomb anniversary

Setsuko Thurlow (L), a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and prominent anti-nuclear campaigner, speaks at an international anti-nuclear meeting in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2023, the 78th anniversary of the attack.

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Hiroshima ahead of 78th A-bomb anniversary

Setsuko Thurlow (top), a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and prominent anti-nuclear campaigner, speaks at a meeting with Japanese lawmakers for nuclear abolition in the western Japan city on Aug. 5, 2023, a day ahead of the 78th anniversary of the attack.

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Hiroshima ahead of 78th A-bomb anniversary

Setsuko Thurlow (L), a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and prominent anti-nuclear campaigner, speaks at a meeting with Japanese lawmakers for nuclear abolition in the western Japan city on Aug. 5, 2023, a day ahead of the 78th anniversary of the attack.

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Hiroshima ahead of 78th A-bomb anniversary

Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and prominent anti-nuclear campaigner, speaks at a meeting with Japanese lawmakers for nuclear abolition in the western Japan city on Aug. 5, 2023, a day ahead of the 78th anniversary of the attack.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow calls G-7 summit "big failure"

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow meets the press in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 21, 2023. She calls the just-ended Group of Seven summit in the atomic-bombed city "a big failure."

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow calls G-7 summit 'big failure'

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow speaks during an interview in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 21, 2023. She calls the G-7 summit in the atomic bombed city "a big failure."

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow in interview

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow gives an interview in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on May 17, 2023.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow in interview

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow gives an interview in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 17, 2023.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow delivers a commemorative lecture at her alma mater Hiroshima Jogakuin University in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 15, 2023, as she receives an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow delivers a commemorative lecture at her alma mater Hiroshima Jogakuin University in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 15, 2023, as she receives an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow smiles after delivering a lecture at her alma mater Hiroshima Jogakuin University in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 15, 2023. She made the commemorative lecture as she received an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow smiles while delivering a commemorative lecture at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023, upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow receives honorary doctorate in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow receives an honorary doctorate at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023. Thurlow, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, was among those who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow delivers a commemorative lecture at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023, upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow receives honorary doctorate in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow receives an honorary doctorate at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023. Thurlow, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, was among those who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

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Canada-residing A-bomb survivor appeals for nuke elimination

VIENNA, Austria - Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, currently residing in Canada, delivers a speech at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Austria on Dec. 8, 2014, calling for actions toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Owner of cafe set in prize-winning movie at work

CHIBA, Japan - Setsuko Tamaki, owner of a cafe in Kyonan, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, serves coffee to customers on Sept. 3, 2014, the day after the Japanese movie "Cape Nostalgia" depicting a group of people who gather at the cafe, called Misaki (Cape), won the Special Grand Prix at the Montreal World Film Festival.

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Woman stands by her cafe featured in award-winning movie

CHIBA, Japan - Setsuko Tamaki stands by her cafe in Kyonan, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Sept. 3, 2014, the day after the Japanese movie "Cape Nostalgia" depicting a group of people who gather at the cafe, called Misaki (Cape), won the Special Grand Prix at the Montreal World Film Festival.

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Truman's grandson at A-bomb survivors' meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Atomic bombing survivor Yasuaki Yamashita (R) speaks about his experiences in the aftermath of the 1945 U.S. bombing of Nagasaki at the Japan Society in New York on Oct. 17, 2012. Clifton Truman Daniel (C), the oldest grandson of Harry Truman, the U.S. president who ordered the two atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan in World War II, and Setsuko Thurlow, also an atomic bombing survivor, sat beside Yamashita. Hundreds of high school students attended the event to listen to their experiences.

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Antinuclear activists refuse to remove tents

TOKYO, Japan - Setsuko Kuroda (2nd from L), a resident of Fukushima Prefecture, speaks during a gathering of antinuclear activists in front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo on Jan. 27, 2012. The activists rejected a call by the industry ministry to remove their tents from its precincts by 5 p.m. the same day, and continued a four-month-old occupation of ministry grounds to press their demand for the closure of all nuclear power plants in Japan.

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A-bomb survivors speak at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken on Oct. 26, 2011, shows Setsuko Thurlow (2nd from R) and Kazu Sueishi (2nd from L), who are survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima, attend an event at the U.N. Headquarters in New York. During the event, they spoke about their experiences of the bombing and answered questions from attendees.

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Project delivers voices of A-bomb survivors to N.Y. high schoolers

NEW YORK, United States - Setsuko Thurlow (far right) talks about her experience of surviving the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima to students at Brooklyn International High School on Dec. 10, 2010.

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2 women, girl die in Tokyo residential fire

TOKYO, Japan - The wooden, two-story house of Setsuko Sakuragi in Tokyo's Ota Ward was gutted by a predawn fire on Jan. 3, 2010. Two women and a girl -- believed to be Sakuragi, 82, her second daughter Hiroko, 48, and Hiroko's daughter Natsumi, 9 -- were killed in the fire.

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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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Films by young directors shed new light on A-bomb survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Setsuko Thurlow (R) and her fellow atomic-bomb survivors pose at Yokohama port Sept. 7, 2008, before their global voyage. Two documentaries on their voyage as members of a group of 103 such survivors invited by the nongovernmental group Peace Boat are being shown around Japan prior to a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May 2010.

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Family holds funeral for murdered hostage

NOGATA, Japan - Setsuko Koda holds a photo of her son Shosei, who was killed by an Islamic militant group in Baghdad, at his funeral in Nogata, Fukuoka, Nov. 5.

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Family holds funeral for slain hostage Koda

FUKUOKA, Japan - Masumi Koda, father of Shosei Koda, a hostage slain in Iraq, makes an address in Nogata in Fukuoka Prefecture on Nov. 5. At center is Shosei's mother, Setsuko, and at right is elder brother, Maki.

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Slain hostage Koda's body arrives in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Masumi Koda (L) and his wife Setsuko, the parents of slain Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, arrive at Fukuoka airport Nov. 3 to receive their son's body. Shosei's body, after he was killed in Baghdad, was transported to his hometown in Fukuoka Prefecture.

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(1)Family of Japanese hostage urges safe release

TOKYO, Japan - Kidnapping victim Shosei Koda's mother Setsuko (L) cries in a car Oct. 28, when she left the Tokyo office of the Al-Jazeera satellite news network. She appealed for her son's freedom in an interview. He has been kidnapped by a group of Islamic militants in Iraq.

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(2)Family of Japanese hostage urges safe release

TOKYO, Japan - Teary-eyed Setsuko Koda (R), mother of Japanese backpacker Shosei Koda who has been kidnapped by a group of militants in Iraq, and his elder brother Maki, plead for his release Oct. 39 in a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.

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(2)Japan seeks to rescue hostage in Iraq, no troop pullout

NOGATA, Japan - Masumi Koda (L), flanked by his wife Setsuko, reads a statement near his house in Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 27, asking the government for help in securing the release of his 24-year-old son Shosei, who has been held hostage in Iraq by a radical group linked to the al-Qaida network.

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Japanese PR expert to be honored by H.K. gov't

HONG KONG - Japanese public relations expert Suzie Setsuko Wakai will on Oct. 13 become the first Japanese to be honored by the Hong Kong government since Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in July 1997. She has been named for a Medal of Honor in recognition of her work for a charitable organization and for promoting participation in Japanese community affairs in Hong Kong.

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NPT review conference in New York

Setsuko Thurlow, a 90-year-old survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima who is now living in Canada, meets the press in New York on Aug. 1, 2022, after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida addresses a review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the U.N. headquarters.

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NPT review conference opens in New York

Setsuko Thurlow, a 90-year-old survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima who is now living in Canada, listens to a speech given by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 1, 2022.

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Anti-nuclear forum in Vienna

Setsuko Thurlow (in screen), a 90-year-old survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima who is now living in Canada, virtually attends a forum being held in Vienna on June 18, 2022, under the sponsorship of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

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(2)Family of Japanese hostage urges safe release

TOKYO, Japan - Teary-eyed Setsuko Koda (R), mother of Japanese backpacker Shosei Koda who has been kidnapped by a group of militants in Iraq, and his elder brother Maki, plead for his release Oct. 39 in a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. (Kyodo)

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(1)Family of Japanese hostage urges safe release

TOKYO, Japan - Kidnapping victim Shosei Koda's mother Setsuko (L) cries in a car Oct. 28, when she left the Tokyo office of the Al-Jazeera satellite news network. She appealed for her son's freedom in an interview. He has been kidnapped by a group of Islamic militants in Iraq. (Kyodo)

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Family holds funeral for murdered hostage

NOGATA, Japan - Setsuko Koda holds a photo of her son Shosei, who was killed by an Islamic militant group in Baghdad, at his funeral in Nogata, Fukuoka, Nov. 5. (Kyodo)

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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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Slain hostage Koda's body arrives in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA, Japan - Masumi Koda (L) and his wife Setsuko, the parents of slain Japanese hostage Shosei Koda, arrive at Fukuoka airport Nov. 3 to receive their son's body. Shosei's body, after he was killed in Baghdad, was transported to his hometown in Fukuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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(2)Japan seeks to rescue hostage in Iraq, no troop pullout

NOGATA, Japan - Masumi Koda (L), flanked by his wife Setsuko, reads a statement near his house in Nogata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 27, asking the government for help in securing the release of his 24-year-old son Shosei, who has been held hostage in Iraq by a radical group linked to the al-Qaida network. (Kyodo)

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PRINCE CHICHIBU OF JAPAN

PRINCE CHICHIBU (YASHHITO) Son of Emperor Taisho, and champion of international goodwill. Photographed shortly before his marriage to Setsuko Matsudaira in September 1928. Date: 1902 - 1953

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BANSHUN

BANSHUN aka LATE SPRING SETSUKO HARA, Date: 1949

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BANSHUN

BANSHUN aka LATE SPRING SETSUKO HARA, CHISHU RYU Date: 1949

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BANSHUN

BANSHUN aka LATE SPRING SETSUKO HARA, Date: 1949