Nagai Takashi Memorial Museum Nagasaki — Attraction in Nagasaki

A small but impactful museum, chronicling the life of a WW II era Japanese medical doctor, who, because of wartime shortages, had to deal with a lack of x-ray film and so had to expose himself to the radiation hundreds of times a day while examining his patients, giving him leukemia and only a short time to live. He was then injured in the Nagasaki atomic bomb explosion, but continued to dedicate what was left of his life too helping others, spreading a message of peace, and writing. The museum is small but well organized, and it is worth going to the second floor to see what has become of his original donation based library. Finally, his tiny home for the last few years of his life is outside. Of all the touching monuments in this city, this is a great one...

The Nagai Takashi Museum keeps and displays the collection of Dr. Nagai's possessios from the Atomic Bomb incident and afterwards in his life.

His books, his paintings and all other important materials are on display.

There's also a video section where you can watch videos on atomic bombing of Nagasaki and the struggle...

Visited this just after the Atomic Bomb Museum. Found it profoundly moving, focusing on the life of one amazing man but telling the story of the Nagasaki bomb in the process. Enough English descriptions to make sense and a very good little intro film. Small museum but highly recommend....