A documentary film on double atomic-bomb survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who was joked about on a BBC quiz show, will make its British debut this summer, with his eldest daughter hoping the screening will make people in the country and around the world more aware of the risks of nuclear power.
"I was furious at first and it was difficult to forgive the BBC" for airing the "Q1" quiz show in December in which her father was called "the unluckiest man in the world" for experiencing both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in August 1945, Toshiko Yamasaki, Yamaguchi's daughter, said Tuesday.
"But then I thought about what my father would say about this. He would have said, 'Why not ask everyone to watch this documentary so that people can have a better understanding of the effects of atomic weapons,' " Yamasaki, 63, told a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.