NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, The Associated Press is republishing the extraordinary photos of one survivor of the attack.

Sumiteru Taniguchi, who died in 2017, was 16 when a U.S. B-29 dropped the bomb on the city. The scars on his back, burned raw by the blast, bore silent witness to that day, August 9, 1945, in an unspoken testimony inscribed in flesh.

The photos, originally published in 2015 by Eugene Hoshiko, the AP chief photographer in Tokyo, show more than remnants of extreme trauma. Taniguchi considered them to be warnings, evidence shown freely so no one could say they hadn’t seen the horrific results of nuclear warfare .

Even after his death, Taniguchi’s legacy endures. As co-chairperson of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japane

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