JO: Give Back Human
by Mitsuyoshi Touge

Give me back my father

Give me back my mother

GIve me back my grandparents

Give me back my children

GIve me back myself

Give me back my people

Give me back people


As long as there is our world,

peace shouldn't be destroyed


Bring me back peace

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●Mitsuyoshi Touge (1917～1953) was born in Hiroshima. This works is in a collection of his poem: Atomic Bomb Poem, which is published in 1952.6.
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Mitsuyoshi Touge was exposed to radiation when the atomic bomb was dropped on HIroshima. After that, he was doing activities such as the abolition of nuclear weapons. In the "Atomic Bomb Poem", there are 25 poems including this "JO". In 1951. 8, he published this collection when the Berlin Peace Meeting was held. Two years later from then, he died because of a disease. He was 36-year-old.