TOKYO — The co-chairman of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Japan's atomic bomb survivors' collective called on the Japanese government to sign an international treaty aimed at eliminating nuclear weapons.
Since its founding in 1956, the Nihon Hidankyo, or Japanese Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Victims' Organizations, has pushed Tokyo to provide more support for victims and lobbied global governments to take action to prevent nuclear war and abolish nuclear weapons.