平和賞受賞、広島で報告　慰霊碑の犠牲者に―被団協・箕牧さんら

　ノーベル平和賞を受賞した日本原水爆被害者団体協議会（日本被団協）の代表委員、箕牧智之さん（８２）らが１８日、広島市中区の平和記念公園にある原爆死没者慰霊碑に献花し、犠牲者に受賞を報告した。
　慰霊碑には、原爆死没者名簿が納められており、犠牲者は８月６日時点で３４万４３０６人に上る。箕牧さんのほか、日本被団協代表理事の田中聡司さん（８０）と高校生平和大使の甲斐なつきさん（１７）が慰霊碑に受賞を報告した。
　報告後、取材に応じた箕牧さんは「戦争をしない、核兵器を作らない日が早く来ることを願っている」と強調。甲斐さんは「どれだけ核兵器廃絶への思いや、平和な世界への思いを訴え続けられるか、実現できるかということが若者世代にかかっている責任と使命だ」と意気込みを語った。（2024/12/18-12:33）

Members of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors, made a visit Wednesday to a cenotaph for deceased victims in Hiroshima to mark its receipt of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
   Toshiyuki Mimaki, 82, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, Satoshi Tanaka, 80, executive of the group, and Natsuki Kai, 17, a high school student serving as a Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Messenger laid bouquets at the cenotaph to report the receipt of the prize to deceased victims.
   In the monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, a list of dead victims is enshrined. It had the names of 344,306 people as of Aug. 6, the anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western city in 1945.
   "I hope the day will come early when no wars are waged and no nuclear weapons are produced," Mimaki told reporters.
   Kai said, "It is the responsibility and mission of us, the younger generation, how much we can keep appealing for the abolition of nuclear weapons and a peaceful world and whether we can realize these."