Barack Obama urged to attend Hiroshima memorial
Sixty-four years after he survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake has broken his silence on his memories of that day to invite President Barack Obama to attend this year's memorial event.
In an opinion article in The New York Times entitled A Flash of Memory, 71-year-old Miyake said he had not previously discussed his experiences on August 6, 1945, because he did not "want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the bomb'".
After hearing President Obama's pledge to eliminate nuclear weapons during a speech in Prague in April, however, "his words awakened something buried deeply" within him.
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In an opinion article in The New York Times entitled A Flash of Memory, 71-year-old Miyake said he had not previously discussed his experiences on August 6, 1945, because he did not "want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the bomb'".
After hearing President Obama's pledge to eliminate nuclear weapons during a speech in Prague in April, however, "his words awakened something buried deeply" within him.