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 "GENOCIDE" - New book November 21, 2006 12:11 AM

October 8, 2006

Dear Taki Yuriko,

I am very much obliged to you and Dr. Ernesto Kahan for receiving "GENOCIDE" that great book of yours unexpectedly.

On August 6, 1945, I was atomic bombed while I was on duty as an army surgeon at the military hospital in Hiroshima. I happened to survive and made every effort to give medical treatment to innumerable victims. I have got a strange chance to treat about 6,000 victims in real number since then.

According to my experiences I learned not only that radioactive rays emitted in the explosion of the atomic bomb killed hundreds of thousands of people in a short time but also that low level radioactive rays radiated from the bodies which took in the radioactive substance remained in the air, in water and on the surface of food continued to kill a large number of people for a long time.

I am now the only one doctor, 89 years of age, that can tell the real fact how the atomic bomb has continued to kill people for these 61 years, because almost all the doctors who had given medical treatment to the victims for ten years after the explosion during which time many a victim had been killed one after another passed away.

It is regrettable that nobody in Japan became aware that both the Holocaust in Auschwitz and the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the most serious genocide that denied the human rights.

30 years have passed since I began to go abroad for the first time in 1975 to inform the atomic bombed real aspects. During the time I was traveling talking in Europe and the United States, a German scholar told me that the atomic bomb attack was also a
Genocide that denied the human rights as well as that in Auschwitz. I realized then that, though I had thought it was against the Japanese people, it is in reality the challenge and crime against human beings.

The subtitle of your book says ‘From Auschwitz to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to Chernobyl, to Africa. . . A bridge built from the 20th century to the future’. The atomic bomb attack is in this book considered not as a tragedy happened 61 years ago but as an important problem continuous to the future that human beings are forced to face. In this sense I deeply sympathize with you.

I thank you for the book, wishing your further kind advice and encouragement.

Sincerely yours,

Hida Shuntaro

GENOCIDE – GENOCIDIO - 大量虐殺

Authors: Ernesto Kahan and Taki Yuriko

ISBN: 4-284-10001-7 Languages: English, Japanese, and Spanish

First edition: It is a deluxe edition to keep forever in libraries all over the world. 28.5cmx 21.5cm x 1.9cm, 970g (includes hard cover), 250 pages

Posted: June 30, 2006 Editorial Nihon Tosho center Co.,LTD. www.nihontosho.co.jp

To order via Amazon.co.jp:  http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/4284100017/503-5402129-7006316?ie=UTF8&language=en%5FJP

In Japanese: http://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/guest/cgi-bin/wshosea.cgi?W-NIPS=9980937661

Some comments about this book:

Bernard Lown, Nobel Peace Prize: -This book […] is a “drop of sun” How appropriate that a Japanese and an Israeli speak with one voice of shared pain. The holocaust and images of Auschwitz meld with the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Ester K. Alter, Holocaust Survivor: -This book is a candle for the memory of the victims and a light of hope for the living.

Minoru Hataguchi, Ex Director, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum: I hope this book will be of great help to abolish the nuclear weapons.

Ittyoh Itoh, Mayor of Nagasaki: -Let Nagasaki be the last A-bombed area through this book.

Luis Arias Manzo, Secretary General of “Poets of the World”: -Ernesto Kahan and Taki Yuriko have gone to the bottom of the abyss for sprinkle of hopes the future of the man.                                       

Maria C. Azcona, Director IFLAC-Argentina: -It is indispensable to read and study this book, to learn from it, to memorize it in schools, colleges and universities. We must recite it in markets, streets and squares.

Hideo Tsuchiyama, Ex-President of Nagasaki University: -A Book That Touches Your Heart

Kyoko Hayashi, Writer: -Two Sides of Humankind. Read it!

Teresinka Pereira, President of the International Association of Writers and Artists, President of the International Congress of the Society of Latin Culture: Just when we begin to question if poetry is truly important enough to make a better world, this book appears to confirm it.

Hangchon Baek Han-Yi, President of HWAAC/WCP, President of World Academy Write Center, The Moon Light of Corea: This publication has special meanings in the light of "Natural Modernism". Congratulations to Taki Yuriko and Ernesto Kahan for publishing it.

Rosemary C. Wilkinson, President Emeritus of the World Congress of Poets, World Academy of Arts & Culture: What a revelation and astounding cooperative gesture and so much accomplished and to accomplish. Congratulations!

Maurus Young. Secretary General of the World Congress of Poets, World Academy of Arts & Culture:  A book for world peace jointly with Ernesto Kahan, an outstanding poet and a medical doctor who dedicates his life for the promotion of world peace.

Masao Tomonaga, International director of IPPNW.  Professor in Nagasaki University: Dr. Kahan, lives for the antinuclear movement and for poetry, whilst Taki in Japan asks earnestly about human nature and the world. Their works compliment each other and of  [ send green star]  [ accepted] 		 
Great!!! December 11, 2006 3:29 PM

Woow...thst's the only thing I can say! It is amazing that there are people who survived after such a thing. This story really inspires me to believe that there are still many people whoa re willing to sacrifise their own lives in the names of the other.

I truly recommend this awesome book to everyone....absolutely everyone!!!

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