TOKYO — On the day Israel first struck Iranian nuclear facilities and as the Russian war on Ukraine continued in the shadow of Moscow’s atomic arsenal, a 93-year-old survivor of the bombing of Nagasaki delivered a stark warning to university students visiting Japan from Hong Kong.
“Why has the world become so advanced, but political leaders stay so behind, only seeking to enhance their own authority?” asked Terumi Tanaka, secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo — a group of Japanese atomic bombing survivors that was awarded last year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
