Iccho Itoh
Mayor of Nagasaki
Iccho Itoh was elected mayor of Nagasaki in 1995. He is a vice president of the World Conference of Mayors for Peace. The following is excerpted from his speech marking the fifty-eighth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 8, 2003. Today, the modern buildings and houses of Nagasaki’s verdant cityscape make it difficult to imagine what happened here at the end of the Second World War on August 9 at 11:02 a.m., 58 years ago. An American aircraft dropped a single atomic bomb that was detonated at an altitude of about 500 meters over the district known…
