Senji Yamaguchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese atomic bomb survivor and anti-nuclear activist
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Place of Birth: Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
About Senji Yamaguchi
- Senji Yamaguchi (?? ??, Yamaguchi Senji, 3 October 1930 – 6 July 2013) was a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and later an anti-nuclear movement leader.Yamaguchi was born in 1930 to a poor family in Nagasaki.
- In 1945, he was employed as an under-age weapons maker.
- On August 9, 1945, he suffered keloid scars while working at the weapon factory when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb, which destroyed nearly everything in Nagasaki. Yamaguchi has only served in two anti-nuclear organizations, one being the Anti-nuclear arms movement in 1955 and heading the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations between the years of 1981 and 2010.
- He even once was granted permission to be involved in the 1982 United Nations meeting.
- In his last years, he was hospitalized and died of an illness on July 6, 2013 in Unzen, Nagasaki.
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