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A NAGASAKI World War Two bombing survivor – who devoted his life to campaign against nuclear weapons – has died aged 93.
Shigemi Fukahori horrifically described the “skin melting” impact of the terror 1945 nuke that blitzed his Japanese city.
Fukahori died on January 3 in a Nagasaki hospital in the southwest of Japan.
He became famous after surviving the horror nuclear bomb that tragically killed nearly 50,000 people and shaped the area for decades.
Fukahori was only 14 when the US dropped the atomic weapon on August 9, 1945, that would officially end World War Two.
The Nagasaki nuke was dropped just three days after an initial atomic bomb killed around 100,000 people in Hiroshima.
Japan surrendered days later after the attack but Fukahori spent years detailing the atrocities of this terror blitz.
He died due to old age, according to local media, but Fukahori previously shared the horrific scenes he saw when he was just a teenager.
Fukahori told Japanese broadcaster NHK in 2019: “On the day the bomb dropped, I heard a voice asking for help.
“When I walked over and held out my hand, the person’s skin melted.
“I still remember how that felt.”
The bomb also had a devastating impact on the teenager as his family were wiped out by the nuke.
Fukahori was unable to talk about the horror attack for years, due to his misery and grief.
The peace advocate opened up about his terror experience 15 years ago after a visit to Spain.
He became outspoken after meeting a man who experienced the 1937 bombing of Guernica, also at 14 years old, during the Spanish Civil War.
Fukahori’s work for peace and against war led him to handing Pope Francis a wreath of white flowers during a 2019 visit to Japan.
The survivor represented the World War Two bomb victims at a ceremony in 2020.
He said: “I am determined to send our message to make Nagasaki the final place where an atomic bomb is ever dropped.”
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