Terumi Tanaka is a Japanese anti-nuclear and anti-war activist and former professor.
10 Facts About Terumi Tanaka
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Terumi Tanaka is a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and is the secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japan-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers.
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Terumi Tanaka was born on 29 April 1932 in Manchuria in China, which was then under Japanese occupation as the puppet state of Manchukuo.
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Terumi Tanaka was blown through several panes of glass but did not suffer major injuries.
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Terumi Tanaka lost his grandfather, two uncles, an aunt, and a cousin in the bombing.
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Terumi Tanaka personally cremated his aunt in a nearby field after she died several days after the bombing.
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Terumi Tanaka was an associate professor in the school of engineering at Tohoku University.
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Terumi Tanaka has been involved with hibakusha activism since 1974, and he became secretary-general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations in 2000.
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Terumi Tanaka has called upon the US to offer an apology for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Terumi Tanaka has spoken out against discrimination against atomic bomb survivors and their descendants.