Takashi Nagai was a convert to the Catholic faith, a radiologist, and a survivor of the atomic blast on 09 August 1945 in the city of Nagasaki. His life and the life of his wife Midori are powerful testimonies of faith, hope, and love.
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Takashi Nagai was born in 1908 into a family practicing Shintoism. His family had a passion for medical research, preparing him to become a physician-scientist. However, during his years in college, he adopted materialistic atheistic viewpoints. The foundation of his materialistic beliefs was shattered when he witnessed his mother’s death from hemorrhagic fever in 1930. In her final moments, as he looked into her eyes, he saw a spark of her soul. This profound experience demolished the ideological framework he had constructed for himself. Takashi later reflected, “Through that last penetrating glance, my mother shattered the walls of my constructed belief system. In her final moments, she spoke to me, conveying the message that the human spirit continues to exist beyond death. This realization came to me as an intuition, an intuition that had the flavor of truth.”
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