S/ Tanaka Terumi, Co-chairperson, Nihon Hidankyo / People are injured, but care is not extended to them at all. People are dead, but no one recovers their bodies. This was the devastation seen on the third day. I strongly felt at the time that such a terrible way to kill was unacceptable. Nuclear weapons must be abolished at all costs. All atomic bomb survivors are convinced of this.

Tanaka described scenes in Nagasaki, three days after an atomic bomb was dropped on the southwestern Japanese city in August 1945.

Speaking at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on October 22, the 92-year-old shared his experiences of the bombing.

He also talked about the activities of Nihon Hidankyo which represents atomic bomb survivors, or hibakusha, and won this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Addressing concerns that the hibakusha are aging, Tanaka said children of survivors are also victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and expressed hope that they will continue activities aimed at eliminating nuclear arms.