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Nobel prize a timely reminder, Hiroshima locals say

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Members of the Nihon Hidankyo and atomic bomb survivors, assistant secretary general Toshiko Hamanaka (L) and co-chair Terumi Tanaka attend a press conference in Tokyo on October 12, 2024. The Nobel Peace Prize was on October 11 awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha. [AFP]

Just like the dwindling group of survivors now recognised with a Nobel prize, Hiroshima's residents hope that the world never forgets the atomic bombing of 1945 -- now more than ever.

Susumu Ogawa, 84, was five when the bomb dropped by the United States all but obliterated the Japanese city 79 years ago, and many of his family were among the 140,000 people killed.

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