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  • Never Silent recounts Setsuko's earliest memories of her happy life in Hiroshima, followed by the devastating firsthand impact she witnesses after the dropping.

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    Hiroshima A-bomb survivor

    As a 13-year old schoolgirl, Setsuko Thurlow found herself in close proximity to the hypocenter of the atomic blast that rocked Hiroshima. A survivor of one of the most pivotal events in modern history, she displayed great courage and leadership, sharing her experiences in beställning to sensitize people to the consequences of armed conflict on civilian populations and to promote lasting peace.

    She worked in Toronto for decades as a social worker in a number of agencies including the Toronto Board of Education and she established the Japanese Family Services of Metropolitan Toronto, serving Japanese-speaking immigrants.  In addition she contributed to breaking the silence of people around the world concerning nuclear issues and initiated many anti-nuclear activities.

    “The first day of Setsuko Thurlow’s school visits, to Flushing High School in Queens, New York City’s oldest public high school, she arrived halfway into the session. The car service that wa

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    Book Review: Crawl toward the Light—Pursuing a World without Nuclear Weapons by Setsuko Thurlow

    2019.08.24 Sat

    Authors: Setsuko Thurlow, Yumi Kanazaki
    Publisher: Iwanami Shoten
    Price: 1,800 yen (plus tax)


    By Kiyomi KAWANO

    Hikari ni mukatte hatte ike—Kaku naki sekai wo oimotomete (Crawl toward the Light—Pursuing a World without Nuclear Weapons) is an autobiography of a hibakusha, Setsuko Thurlow, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who represented the ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) at the award ceremony in December 2017, whose brave figure (?) at the reception speech is still fresh in our minds. The book was compiled by a journalist Yumi Kanazaki.

    The book starts off as her reminiscence of childhood, but as it goes through her experience of the atomic bombing, it gradually unfolds the bird’s eye view of the global antinuclear campaign involving the government and private sectors. Basing on her own experience as an antinuclear activist, ra

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    Setsuko Thurlow

    Japanese anti–nuclear weapons activist

    Setsuko Thurlow

    Setsuko Thurlow on 27 October 2017

    Born

    中村 節子 Nakamura Setsuko


    (1932-01-03) 3 January 1932 (age 93)

    Hiroshima, Japan

    NationalityJapanese, Canadian
    Known forAnti-nuclear activism, Peace activism, Social work
    AwardsOfficer of the Order of Canada (2007)

    Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee award (2012)

    NAPF's Distinguished Peace Leadership Award (2016) Ahmadiyya Muslim Peace Prize (2016)

    Nobel Peace Prize (2017)

    Setsuko Thurlow (サーロー 節子, Sārō Setsuko, born 3 January 1932), born Setsuko Nakamura (中村 節子, Nakamura Setsuko), is a Japanese–Canadian nuclear disarmament campaigner and Hibakusha who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. She is mostly known throughout the world for being a leading figure of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons (ICAN) and to have given the acceptance speech for its reception of the 2017 Nobel peace pr

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