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Nobel laureate Nihon Hidankyo co-chair worries about children in Israel and Gaza [1]

['Chang-Ran Kim']

Date: 2024-10-12

Toshiyuki Mimaki was beside himself with joy when he found out that the atomic bomb survivors' group that he co-chairs had won the Nobel Peace Prize, but later pushed back tears of sorrow as he pictured children suffering in Israel and Gaza.

The Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs at the end of World War II, won the award on Friday in what was seen as a plea to nuclear-armed countries not to use those weapons.

While Mimaki said the prize would give a major boost to his group's efforts to demonstrate that it was possible to abolish nuclear weapons, he acknowledged that many countries seemed uninterested in seeing a world without them.

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[1] Url: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/12/japan/hidankyo-israel-gaza-children-worry/

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