Kenji Hayashida thought about committing suicide in the years after an atomic
bomb was dropped on his hometown of Nagasaki.
On Sunday he will hear
Pope Francis call there for a world without
nuclear weapons, a message 81-year-old supports passionately.
Like many ageing survivors of the attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Hayashida hopes the pope can bring fresh international attention to the cause of nuclear abolition, and also keep alive the memory of the devastating bombings.