The back of then-teenage Sumiteru Taniguchi      

was horribly burned after the atomic bombing                 

of Nagasaki.

Sumiteru Taniguchi at Nagasaki Peace                                                                       

When Sumiteru Taniguchi hands you his business card, you find yourself staring at a teenage boy's naked back. The boy lies face down. The back is horribly burned, the red skin raw and festering.

Taniguchi, 77, is chairman of the Nagasaki Council of the A-Bomb Sufferers. The boy is himself. The photo was taken by U.S. army personnel six months after the Nagasaki bombing, and under it is printed, "I want you to understand, if only a little, the horror of nuclear weapons."

"I have no desire to make a spectacle of myself," he tells them. "But with nuclear weapons, to forget is to condone. Don't turn your eyes away."

Taniguchi hopes to see the day when nuclear weapons are no more. To my ears, the powerful words spoken by this slender figure of a man sound a warning: "Don't forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

Taken from the following website:

 http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/features/news/20061103p2g00m0fe026000c.html