PM seeks realistic approach after A-bomb survivors' group wins Nobel prize

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday called for taking a realistic approach to the abolition of nuclear weapons, a day after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.Ishiba, who congratulated Terumi Tanaka, the 92-year-old co-chairman of the group, by phone, cited the need for nuclear deterrence as a "pragmatic response," while saying nuclear abolition is the ultimate goal.The group, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, received the prize "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons…READ FULL ARTICLE