被爆者ら３１人、授賞式出席へ　ノーベル平和賞、２世らも―日本被団協

　ノーベル平和賞受賞が決定した日本原水爆被害者団体協議会（日本被団協）は１日、ノルウェーの首都オスロで１２月１０日に開かれる授賞式に、田中熙巳代表委員（９２）ら被爆者や、子や孫に当たる被爆２、３世ら代表団計３１人が出席すると発表した。式典では田中代表委員がスピーチを行う。
　浜住治郎事務局次長（７８）は東京都内の事務所で、「危険な世界の情勢の中、被爆者の思いを発信してきたい」と語った。（2024/11/01-23:44）

A 31-member delegation, mainly made up of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors, will attend a ceremony to be held on Dec. 10 to present the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, also known as Nihon Hidankyo, with the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, according to the group's announcement.
   Nihon Hidankyo co-chair Terumi Tanaka, 92, will deliver a speech at the ceremony, which will be held in the Norwegian capital of Oslo, the group said Friday.
   "We hope to deliver the voices of hibakusha in the midst of perilous situations in the world," Jiro Hamasumi, 78, an assistant secretary-general of Nihon Hidankyo, said.
   The delegation will include 16 hibakusha and children of hibakusha who serve in senior posts of Nihon Hidankyo, as well as hibakusha from South Korea and Brazil.
   Among others in the delegation are those with whom Nihon Hidankyo has worked together--Izumi Nakamitsu, who is the U.N. undersecretary-general and high representative for disarmament affairs, Akira Kawasaki, who is a member of the international steering committee of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, third-generation hibakusha Mitsuhiro Hayashida and American University professor Peter Kuznick.