Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011Kyodo HIROSHIMA — Diaries of Korean and
German atomic-bomb survivors depicting the devastation of
Hiroshima and their postwar struggle for compensation are among
the exhibits at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. In journals
that were put on public display for the first time, Shin Yong
Su, father of the current South Korean consul general in
Hiroshima, writes about how he campaigned for support for Korean
victims, while priest Klaus Luhmer describes what the city was
like in the days after the bombing. Shin Hyong Gun, the consul
general, provided the documents to the museum for a special
exhibition from July 15 to Dec. 14. “I want visitors to learn
that not only Japanese but foreigners also suffered in the
atomic bombing, although it is usually said that Japan is the
only atomic-bombed country,” Shin said. Shin’s father, who
founded the Korean hibakusha association in 1967, became in 1974
the first non-Japanese to obtain an atomic bomb survivor’s
certificate, entitling him to medical