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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Powerful AP photos show the scars of a survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing

Japan Nagasaki Anniversary Scars Photo Gallery - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press is republishing the extraordinary photos of one survivor of the attack.

Sumiteru Taniguchi, who died in 2017, was 16 when a U.S. B-29 dropped the bomb on the city. The scars on his back, burned raw by the blast, bore silent witness to that day, August 9, 1945, in an unspoken testimony inscribed in flesh.

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