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Co-head of Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo says ‘never dreamt would win Nobel’

By October 11, 2024No Comments1 min read

Tokyo, Japan (AFP) – The co-head of the Japanese anti-nuclear group that won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday expressed his surprise at being given the award for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.

“Never did I dream this could happen,” Toshiyuki Mimaki of Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, told reporters with tears in his eyes.

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Featured image: Nobel Peace Prize 2024 Credit: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

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