Nobel Peace Prize winner urges Japan to sign anti-nuclear arms treaty

The co-chair of the collective of Japanese atomic bomb survivors that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize urged the Japanese government to sign an international agreement aimed at eliminating nuclear weapons.

Since its formation in 1956, Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, has pushed Tokyo for greater support for victims and lobbied global governments for measures to prevent nuclear war and abolish nuclear weapons.