Nagasaki A-bomb survivor hopes to pass down 'light of peace' as Olympic torch bearer May 8 スーパーコピーバッグ  2021 (Mainichi Japan) Japanese version Takashi Miyata is seen during his leg in the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, on May 7. 2021. (Pool photo) Actor Satomi Ishihara is seen holding the Tokyo Olympic torch in Matsuyama, Nagasaki Prefecture, on May 7, 2021. (Mainichi/Kentaro Nagasaki) NAGASAKI -- An 81-year-old atomic bombing survivor completed his leg in the Tokyo Olympic torch relay in the southwest Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on May 7, hoping to "pass down a light of peace to younger generations." Takashi Miyata ran strongly as he held the torch up in the prefectural city of Unzen コピーブランド  with a sense of determination to achieve peace. Miyata was exposed to radiation from the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki at age 5 ブランドスーパーコピー激安  when he was at home approximately 2.4 kilometers from the hypocenter. The young Miyata barely escaped his hometown, which was burned to ashes. Decades later, Miyata visited Lebanon as a sales representative in the midst of the Yom Kippur War, or the fourth Arab-Israeli war in the early 1970s, and witnessed children who had been orphaned by the war begging for food and other things barefooted. It triggered his memories from the time of the atomic bombing ブランドスーパーコピー  and he became determined to engage in antiwar activities. He has since spoken of his experience of the war at elementary and junior high schools, telling children that a peace is "something you create yourself." Miyata hopes that as the Olympics are staged, momentum toward nuclear arms abolition will grow even more following the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons coming into force in January this year ブランドコピー靴  but he feels angered that the Japanese government has turned its back on the treaty. "The government should protect the people from the nuclear threat just as it should protect them from the coronavirus," Miyata said heatedly. The torch relay's Nagasaki Prefecture leg was joined by celebrities including actor Satomi Ishihara, 34, who has communicated with A-bomb survivors. (Japanese original by Atsuki Nakayama and Kentaro Nagaoka, Nagasaki Bureau) Font Size SML Print Go to The Mainichi Home Page Related Articles Tokyo Games torch relay runs into obstacles in Fukuoka Pref. due to state of emergency A-bomb survivors pledge to finish 'half' completed nuke ban mission Editorial: Japan's involvement needed in newly enforced nuclear ban treaty