Japanese Nobel Peace Prize winner calls for end to nuclear weapons

Recognition for Nihon Hidankyo comes as bomb survivor numbers dwindle

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Jorgen Watne Frydnes, left, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, takes the stage with Terumi Tanaka, Shigemitsu Tanaka and Toshiyuki Mimaki, who received the Peace Prize on behalf of Nihon Hidankyo. © Reuters

AKANE OKUTSU, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Nuclear weapons have no place in the world and more must be done to eliminate them, Terumi Tanaka, the 92-year-old co-chair of Japan's atomic bomb survivors group, said at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Norway on Tuesday.

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