A-Bomb Survivors Renew Pledge to Carry On Campaigns; Visitors to Hiroshima, Nagasaki Discuss Nobel Peace Prize

HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI – The day after it was announced that Nihon Hidankyo, or Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, had won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Saturday renewed their pledge to continue their activities toward realizing a world free from nuclear weapons.

In Hiroshima, Kunihiko Sakuma, head of a Hidankyo group for Hiroshima Prefecture, visited the Peace Memorial Park with nine others to report the news to the victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing.