The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organisation of atomic bomb survivors from the 1945 attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The grassroots group was awarded the prize on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel committee, which recognised “its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”.
At a press conference in Hiroshima on Friday, Toshiyuki Mimaki, the head of Nihon Hidankyo, appeared overwhelmed by the news, pinching his cheek to check he was not dreaming and welling up in tears.
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