Tokyo, Oct 11, 2024 (AFP) - Japan PM says peace Nobel for Nihon Hidankyo 'extremely meaningful'

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2024-10-11

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday hailed the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots organisation of atomic bomb survivors, as "extremely meaningful". "The fact that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to this organisation, which has spent many years working toward the abolition of nuclear weapons, is extremely meaningful," he told reporters. tmo-kaf/lb ...

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