EGN NEWS DESK
A day after Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his or her efforts to realize a world freed from nuclear weapons, members of the group on Saturday expressed shock and gratitude over the award, but in addition famous the urgent must go down their efforts to the youthful era — particularly because the taboo over using the weapons continues to erode.
“I needed to pinch my cheeks to verify,” Toshiyuki Mimaki, a senior Nihon Hidankyo member, informed a information convention in Tokyo, describing his feeling when he heard the information.
Members recounted how Hidankyo’s title had been thrown round as a potential contender for the peace prize many occasions over the previous a number of many years, however mentioned they had been utterly caught off-guard when the announcement got here Friday.
