Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan and the representative of an organization that won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop making nuclear threats
Representatives of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, from left; Toshiyuki Mimaki, Terumi Tanaka and Shigemitsu Tanaka, sign the guest book ahead of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, on Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the U.S.
“I don’t think he has even thought about this or understood this. Therefore, he is able to say these kind of things. So I think that how we can change his way of thinking is what we need to do to have him really understand what these are,” he said through a translator. While he did not suffer major injuries himself, he lost five family members, and has said that the images of burned bodies in the devastated city are etched in his memory.
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