FRANCE 24 speaks to one of the last 'hibakusha' – Hiroshima’s atomic bomb survivors – 78 years after US forces dropped the nuclear weapon that largely destroyed the Japanese city during World War II.
Satoshi Tanaka was a baby living with his family on the outskirts of Hiroshima when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. By the end of the year, the nuclear weapon had killed an estimated 140,000 people living in the city. Among the dead were nearly all of Tanaka’s maternal family.
