Mikiso Iwasa, adviser for a major Japanese antinuclear group who attended a ceremony to mark former U.S. President Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima in 2016, has died of pancreatic cancer, his family said Tuesday. He was 91.Iwasa, who died early Monday at his home in Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, co-headed the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, known as Hidankyo, before assuming the advisory post. He was also a professor emeritus at Kanazawa University.A native of Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, Iwasa was 16 years old when the first U.S. atomic bo…READ FULL ARTICLE
