This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners say they see themselves in the Palestinians being attacked by Israel in Gaza. On Friday, it was announced that Nihon Hidankyo, known as “the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations,” had won the Prize this year. Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of the organization, watched the ceremony in No...
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has gone to a movement of survivors of the 1945 US atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The group Nihon Hidankyo has been working to eliminate the nuclear bomb, and for decades, has represented hundreds of thousands of survivors of the bombings. The Nobel committee said […]
Tokyo, Japan — AFP The US ambassador to Japan skipped a ceremony on Friday marking the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in protest at Israel not being invited. Rahm Emanuel instead attended a prayer meeting at a Tokyo temple with Israeli ambassador Gilad Cohen and Britain’s Julia Longbottom, who also boycotted the...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Japan on Friday commemorated the US atomic bombing of the city in 1945, while refusing to invite Israel to the ceremonies. At 11.02 a.m. local time, the exact moment a US B-29 airplane released its bomb over Nagasaki, the city fell silent in remembrance. The tragic event at the end of World […]
