Yoshio Nagaoka, center, head of Kinoko Kai, speaks of the effectuation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at a news conference on Jan. 22 at Hiroshima city’s office in the municipality’s Naka Ward. (Jun Ueda)
HIROSHIMA Yoshio Nagaoka never forgot the question his older brother once casually asked him: “What do you think it would be like if I had not been affected by the atomic bombing?”
His elder brother had microcephaly since birth. Their mother, Chizuno, was pregnant and near ground zero when the blast occurred on Aug. 6, 1945.
Today, Nagaoka, 71, touches on this story as he campaigns for the abolition of nuclear weapons.