They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Well, Sumiteru Taniguchi, 86, proves this with the images of the wounds he suffered to highlight the lasting effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing on August 9 1945.
The octogenarian was just 16-years-old when an atomic bomb threw him from his bike in Nagasaki.
For 70 years, he has lived with a web of wounds covering most of his back, and the remains of three ribs that half rotted away.
He is still unable to fully straighten his left arm.
His wife still applies a moisturizing cream every morning to reduce irritation from the scars. Not a day goes by without pain.
The victim spent 21 months lying on his stomach getting treatment for his burned back, decomposing flesh and exposed bones.
Taniguchi hopes no one else will have to suffer the pain of nuclear weapons.
He heads a Nagasaki survivors group working against nuclear proliferation, though old age and pneumonia are making it harder for him to play an active role.
