Takashi tanemori biography

Hiroshima bomb survivor finds peace through forgiveness. Takashi Tanemori says anger consumed him for 40 years after many in his family died in the bombing of Hiroshima. He learned to forgive after recalling his father's words: "Respect all who are living. His father, mother, grandparents and two sisters were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

He survived a suicide attempt, two heart attacks and stomach cancer, and now is blind as a result of nuclear radiation from the attack. But Tanemori isn't bitter. He isn't even angry. The festival will be held today at the University of Hawai'i. Tanemori, of Lafayette, Calif. Tanemori was 8 years old and less than a mile from ground zero when his parents and much of his family were killed the day his hometown of Hiroshima was bombed.

When he was 18, Tanemori emigrated to America as an embittered teenager, hating the nation that had destroyed his family.

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Call He wanted people to suffer as he had suffered. But he says on Aug. He was on his way to an antinuclear rally when the clouds over San Francisco Bay triggered his memory of the atom bomb. The memories were so vivid.