Wakami Fujita was mayor of Hiroshima

Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

 from 1939 to 1943.

He survived the atomic attack on Hiroshima

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.For six months...

 on August 6, 1945, and continued working for the Hiroshima municipality until 1947, when the US authorities purged him from his duties. In January 1946, he was appointed as chairman of the special Restoration Bureau established by the mayor Shichirō Kihara

Shichirō Kihara

was mayor of Hiroshima from October 22, 1945 to March 22, 1947 and was elected as member of the Hiroshima Prefectural Assembly in 1911.Following the atomic attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, a period of political vacuum was created, as the city lay in ruins its mayor Senkichi Awaya was killed...

. After losing the right to work, he supported the policies of mayor Shinzo Hamai

Shinzo Hamai

was the first popularly elected Mayor of Hiroshima . He created Hiroshima's image as a city of peace.-Life and career:...

in reconstruction.

He died of stomach cancer.