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Living Hiroshima - My Experience: A Lecture by Nobuo Miyake

Update: June 12, 2019

On June 6 (Thurs.), ICU's Social Science Research Institute hosted a lecture by Mr. Nobuo Miyake. Mr. Miyake was born in Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, in 1929. He was in a train 1.8 kilometers from the hypocenter of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. He started talking about his nuclear bomb experience from the latter half of 1980s, and since 2012 he has been travelling the world aboard the Peace Boat, which goes to various places around the world, with the aim of promoting international interaction.

In the lecture, he talked about his background and conveyed the tragic scenes when the nuclear bomb was dropped using illustrations. It was admirable to see the students listening intently to the lecture. He further talked about how the hibakusha lived in the post war period, the current status of nuclear weapon development, the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by the UN and about International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and finally about the Fukushima nuclear disaster as seen from the perspective of a hibakusha.