森田隆さん死去、１００歳　在外被爆者援護に尽力

　広島市で被爆後にブラジルに移民し、在外被爆者援護実現に尽力した森田隆さんが１２日、老衰のためサンパウロ市内の病院で死去した。１００歳だった。
　１９２４年、広島県生まれ。４５年８月の原爆投下時、旧日本陸軍憲兵として爆心地近くで働いていて被爆した。５６年、家族と共にブラジルに移住。国外在住を理由に被爆者援護法に基づく健康管理手当を打ち切られた。８４年に「在ブラジル原爆被爆者協会」を設立。在外被爆者に日本国内と同様の医療支援を提供するよう求めて日本で訴訟を起こした。
　ブラジルの若者に被爆体験を伝える活動も展開。今年５月には、ブラジルを訪問した岸田文雄首相と面会した。（2024/08/14-05:55）

Takashi Morita, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima who later immigrated to Brazil where he led efforts to help bomb survivors overseas, died of old age at a hospital in Sao Paulo on Monday. He was 100.
   Morita was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombing of the Japanese city in August 1945 when he was a military police officer.
   After Morita and his family immigrated to Brazil in 1956, the Japanese government stopped providing him with health care benefits under the atomic bomb survivors' support law.
   In 1984, Morita formed a group of atomic bomb survivors in Brazil. He filed a lawsuit in Japan demanding the same level of medical support for atomic bomb survivors living overseas as in Japan.
   Morita engaged in activities to tell his experience of the bombing to young people in Brazil. He met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Brazil in May.