(11 Oct 2024)
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Tokyo, Japan – 11 October 2024
1. Various of Japanese newspaper Yomiuri’s special "Nobel Peace Prize" edition being handed out
2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese), Sayaka Nakanishi, high school teacher in Tokyo:
“There are certain things that only Japan as a nation hit by an atomic bomb can appeal. I would be happy if this award could be an opportunity to make people around the world think.”
3. Man reading the special edition newspaper
4. Close of special edition newspaper reporting on the Nobel Peace Prize win
5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese), no name given, male commuter:
“Russia is trying to use it now. So it would be good if this award can act as a deterrent.”
6. Special edition newspaper distribution
7. SOUNDBITE (Japanese), no name given, male commuter:
“I just hope this could prompt Putin to reconsider.”
8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese), Fumio Yokoyama, trader:
“We needed this award sooner. The world has already become such a difficult place, and it’s a bit too late now. That’s how I feel.”
9. Special edition newspaper distribution
10. SOUNDBITE (Japanese), Fumio Yokoyama, trader:
“Last year I visited Hiroshima. As soon as I got to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, I started crying. I think every head of state should visit there.”
11. Various of special edition newspaper being distributed
STORYLINE:
Tokyo workers reacted with surprise and joy on Friday when they learnt on their commute home that Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo, a group formed by atomic bomb survivors, won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
For many Japanese survivors of the U.S. World War Two atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their relatives, Friday’s awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo gives them hope for a new momentum to push for a nuclear-free world, starting from getting their own government sign the nuclear weapons ban treaty.
Some felt, however, the award came too late.
“We needed this award sooner. The world has already become such a difficult place, and it’s a bit too late now,” Fumio Yokoyama said.
Hidankyo became the first Japanese recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 50 years since Eisaku Sato in 1974 for his contribution to stabilising conditions in the Pacific Rim area and for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The group’s honor comes seven years after the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Wapons won the peace prize in 2017 for their contribution.
This included their contribution towards the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which took effect in 2021.
Hidankyo members collected more than 3 million signatures and have since demanded the reluctant Japanese government sign the treaty and do more to lead the nuclear disarmament as the world’s only country to have suffered atomic attacks.
AP video by Ayaka McGill
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