PRIME Minister Shigeru Ishiba is planning to meet next month with members of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan’s leading group of atomic bomb survivors that received this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday.
The government is expected to celebrate the group’s achievements over its decades of activism and encourage it further ahead of the 80th anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki next year, during the meeting slated for 8 January.
Tetsuo Saito, who leads the Komeito party, the junior coalition partner of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, will also attend, according to the source.
Nihon Hidankyo, also known as the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, received the award “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Kyodo
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