English tour livestreamed from Japan’s Nagasaki atomic bomb museum
Hibiki Yamaguchi (R) gives an online tour of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on July 24, 2020. (Pool photo) (Kyodo). Sketched by the Pan Pacific Agency.
NAGASAKI, Jul 24, 2020, Kyodo. An antinuclear group on Friday livestreamed a 30-minute English tour of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum to reach out to people overseas as the coronavirus pandemic has sharply reduced the number of foreign visitors to the facility, Kyodo News reported.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, organized the virtual tour via Instagram and drew more than 150 participants, before the 75th anniversaries next month of the U.S. atomic bombings that devastated Hiroshima in western Japan and Nagasaki in the southwest.
Hibiki Yamaguchi, a 44-year-old member of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Testimonial Society, introduced photographs and objects that showed the devastation caused by the plutonium-core bomb known as “Fat Man,” which was dropped on Aug. 9, 1945, and killed an estimated 74,000 people by the end of 1945.
The guide also described in English how the city of Nagasaki was before the attack and the current situation in the world’s nuclear-armed states.
Some participants asked how many atomic bomb survivors are alive and what younger generations can do to eliminate nuclear weapons.
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