HIROSHIMA
\nVisitors to the memorial park for Hiroshima\u2019s atomic bombing said they hoped Friday\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize for Japan\u2019s atomic bomb survivors would boost efforts for world peace and spur world leaders to visit the site.
\nThe Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to the Nihon Hidankyo group, representing survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its decades-long efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.
\n\u201cAs Japanese people, I believe we need to ensure that the same thing doesn\u2019t happen again,\u201d Ui Torisawa, a 21-year-old student who was visiting the Peace Memorial Park with her friend, told Reuters.
\n\u201cSince Japan is the only country to have suffered atomic bombings, and because similar things could be repeated in other countries, I think Japan is probably in the best position to stop that.\u201d
\nAugust next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the bombings. It is likely to draw focus on the legacy of its survivors, known as \u201chibakusha\u201d, and could set off a renewed debate about nuclear weapons.
\nYasuhiro Suzuki, who was visiting the Peace Memorial Park with his wife, son and daughter from Fukuoka prefecture in southwest Japan, called it \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d that the group representing the atomic bomb survivors was awarded the Nobel Peace Price.
\n\u201cNuclear power is incredibly beneficial to the world, but we must be careful not to misuse it,\u201d Suzuki said. \u201cI hope this becomes an opportunity for people around the world to think about various aspects of this issue.\u201d
\nHiroshima\u2019s peace park has long drawn not just Japanese visitors but also foreigners, including world leaders such as Barack Obama, who spoke at the site as U.S. president in 2016 and hugged a tearful hibakusha.
\n\u201cI believe there are still many prime ministers and leaders in the world who could come (to Japan), and I hope they will make the effort to visit,\u201d said Hiroshima resident Hirokazu Tanabe, who works as a driver and who came to the park to show around a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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