Hiroshima A-bomb survivor who became activist in Brazil dies at 100

Takashi Morita, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who, after moving to Brazil in the 1950s, worked as a peace activist and helped other survivors overseas receive aid from Japan, died Monday, according to his family. He was 100.Morita, who died in a hospital in Sao Paulo, had been a military police officer in the Japanese city at the time of the U.S. atomic bombing. Eleven years after being injured in the August 1945 attack, he moved to Brazil.Despite having refrained from talking much about his experience upon arrival in the South American country so as to avoid possible discri…READ FULL ARTICLE