Nihon Hidankyo announces Nobel Prize win for atomic bomb victims

Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Oct. 13 (Jiji Press) — A senior member of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Sunday to report that the group of Hibakusha atomic bomb survivors was named this year’s group winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Toshiyuki Mimaki, 82, co-chairman of the group known as Nihon Hidankyo, donated flowers at the cenotaph for those who died in and after the atomic bombing of the city in western Japan on August 6, 1945, including the former co-chairman Sunao Tsuboi, who died in 2021.

“We will not give up on the abolition of nuclear weapons,” vowed Mimaki Tsuboi, whose favorite phrase was “Never give up,” and other victims.

The cenotaph contains a list of atomic bomb victims, whose total as of August 6 of this year was 344,306.

“The atomic bomb victims buried here called for the abolition of nuclear weapons, which led to the decision to award us the prize this time,” Mimaki told reporters.

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