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Oliver Stone in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. film director Oliver Stone (3rd from L) is pictured with Sumiteru Taniguchi (2nd from L), a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, in Nagasaki on Aug. 7, 2013.

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) shakes hands with Sumiteru Taniguchi, 81, head of the Nagasaki A-bomb Sufferers' Council at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. The photo at upper right shows the burns Taniguchi received on his back in the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time.

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) shakes hands with Sumiteru Taniguchi, 81, head of the Nagasaki A-bomb Sufferers' Council at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. The photo at upper right shows the burns Taniguchi received on his back in the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time.

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A-bomb survivor at NPT conference

NEW YORK, United States - Sumiteru Taniguchi, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack, holds up a picture of himself as a boy when he speaks of his suffering caused by the nuclear weapon during a session of the U.N. conference on reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York on May 7, 2010. The 81-year-old said he cannot die in peace until he witnesses the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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A-bomb survivor at NPT conference

NEW YORK, United States - Sumiteru Taniguchi, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack, holds up a picture of himself as a boy when he speaks of his suffering caused by the nuclear weapon during a session of the U.N. conference on reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York on May 7, 2010. The 81-year-old said he cannot die in peace until he witnesses the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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Nagasaki marks 70th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing

Sumiteru Taniguchi, an 86-year-old representative of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, reads out a plea for peace during a ceremony at the Peace Park in the Japanese city on Aug. 9, 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki A-bomb survivor speaks at int'l civic meet in New York

Sumiteru Taniguchi, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, shows photos of his burn injuries, as he delivers his speech at an international civic meeting in New York on April 24, 2015, to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb survivor speaks at meeting to send off team to NY NPT confab

Sumiteru Taniguchi, head of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council, speaks at a meeting in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on April 18, 2015, to send off a group of survivors and college students to the 2015 NPT review conference in New York, which will get under way on April 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki A-bomb survivor working for end to nuclear weapons

Sumiteru Taniguchi, 86, recalls his battle for life in hospital for three and a half years during treatment for burn injuries on his back following the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki during an interview in the southwestern Japanese city on June 23, 2015. His ordeal caught global attention after a photo of radiation-caused burns all over his back, taken by the U.S. military, was distributed by the press throughout the world in 1970. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki man recounts burn injuries on back caused by A-bombing

Sumiteru Taniguchi, 86, recalls his battle for life in hospital for three and a half years during treatment for burn injuries on his back following the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki during an interview in the southwestern Japanese city on June 23, 2015. His ordeal caught global attention after a photo of radiation-caused burns all over his back, taken by the U.S. military, was distributed by the press throughout the world in 1970. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagasaki A-bomb survivor attends peace gathering in New York

Sumiteru Taniguchi, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, attends a peace gathering in New York on April 26, 2015, to call for the elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) shakes hands with Sumiteru Taniguchi, 81, head of the Nagasaki A-bomb Sufferers' Council at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. The photo at upper right shows the burns Taniguchi received on his back in the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time. (Kyodo)

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) shakes hands with Sumiteru Taniguchi, 81, head of the Nagasaki A-bomb Sufferers' Council at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. The photo at upper right shows the burns Taniguchi received on his back in the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb survivor battling nukes, time after 65 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - Atomic-bomb victim Sumiteru Taniguchi, 81, speaks at a press conference held by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations in Tokyo on June 16, 2010, following a meeting of the group on the U.N. conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May. Taniguchi expressed concern about his health and age but vowed to sincerely serve as a representative of the group after he was appointed the same day. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb survivor at NPT conference

NEW YORK, United States - Sumiteru Taniguchi, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack, holds up a picture of himself as a boy when he speaks of his suffering caused by the nuclear weapon during a session of the U.N. conference on reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York on May 7, 2010. The 81-year-old said he cannot die in peace until he witnesses the elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb survivor at NPT conference

NEW YORK, United States - Sumiteru Taniguchi, a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack, holds up a picture of himself as a boy when he speaks of his suffering caused by the nuclear weapon during a session of the U.N. conference on reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York on May 7, 2010. The 81-year-old said he cannot die in peace until he witnesses the elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb book by Briton to be reprinted on Nagasaki anniversary

File photo taken in December 2016 at a U.N. disarmament conference in Nagasaki shows Sumiteru Taniguchi speaking about his plight as a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city with pictures of himself taken after he was exposed to atomic radiation. The Japanese language edition of British author Peter Townsend's "The Postman of Nagasaki," which depicted Taniguchi's pain and suffering after the atomic bombing, will be published in Japan on Aug. 9, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Influential Nagasaki A-bomb survivor Taniguchi dies at 88

File photo taken in May 2010 shows A-bomb survivor Sumiteru Taniguchi giving a speech at the U.N. conference on reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York with a picture of himself suffering from severe burns caused by the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Taniguchi died of duodenal papilla cancer on Aug. 30, 2017, at age 88. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. conference on disarmament begins in Nagasaki

Sumiteru Taniguchi, 87, who was severely burned by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki by the United States in 1945, shows pictures of his injuries to the audience during the United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 12, 2016, its opening day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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German President Gauck visits Nagasaki, meets A-bomb survivors

German President Joachim Gauck shakes hands with Sumiteru Taniguchi, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, in the southwestern Japan city on Nov. 18, 2016. Gauck made his first visit to Nagasaki. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo