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Japan Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Group Receives Nobel Peace Prize, Calls for Nuclear Ban

December 10, 2024 admin

Oslo: Japan’s atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo accepted its Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, pleading for the abolition of nuclear weapons that are resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. One of the three Nihon Hidankyo co-chairs, 92-year-old Nagasaki survivor Terumi Tanaka, demanded “action from governments to achieve” a…

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Nobel Peace Prize winners warn of rising risk of nuclear war

October 12, 2024 admin

Members of Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors, that won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, attend a press conference on October 12, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warned on Saturday (October 12, 2024)…

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Bomb survivors use Nobel Peace Prize 2024 win to share their anti-nuke message with younger generations

October 12, 2024 admin

Atomic bomb survivors and members of Nihon Hidankyo, a country-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers, including Assistant Secretary General Toshiko Hamanaka, Co-chairperson Terumi Tanaka, Assistant Secretary General Masako Wada, Assistant Secretary General Jiro Hamasumi attend a press conference on the following day of Nihon Hidankyo winning the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, in Tokyo,…

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Nobel Peace Prize will show that nuclear weapons can be abolished, winner says

October 11, 2024 admin

Toshiyuki Mimaki, president of Nihon Hidankyo. File. | Photo Credit: AP The head of Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo said on Friday (September 11, 2024) that the group’s win of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize would give a major boost to its efforts to demonstrate that the abolition of nuclear weapons was possible. “It would be a…

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