Postman who survived atomic bomb in Nagasaki dies aged 88
Sumiteru Taniguchi, who devoted his life to seeking to abolish nuclear weapons after he was severely burned in the 1945 atomic bomb attack on his home town of Nagasaki, has died aged 88.
He died in hospital in Nagasaki of cancer of the duodenal papilla, the point where the pancreatic and bile ducts meet, according to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisation.
