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KIRYU Hiroto

 

He has photographed victims of nuclear tests, including those on Mururoa Atoll, Semiparatinsk, and Rongelap. In 1993, from aboard a Greenpeace ship, he took photos of a Russian fleet dumping nuclear waste in the Sea of Japan, and released these to the world.

 

成長障害に苦しむ18才の少女An 18-year Old Girl Suffering from a Growth Disorder
成長障害に苦しむ18才の少女An 18-year Old Girl Suffering from a Growth Disorder

This eighteen-year-old girl was born to parents who had been exposed to radioactivity from nuclear tests.

She was raised on an island contaminated by residual radioactivity. She is only 120 centimeters tall, and retarded both physically and mentally due to the effects of radiation. She also has a deformity in her upper jaw.

(1993, Mejatto, Marshall Islands )

 

猛烈なかゆみ心臓にも病気 Unbearable itch and Heart Disease
猛烈なかゆみ心臓にも病気 Unbearable itch and Heart Disease

his man also worked for many years at the atmospheric nuclear test site. He developed a skin disease on his scalp which was unbearably itchy and also suffered from heart disease.He asked a French military doctor to prescribe medicine for him secretly.

(1995,Tahiti )