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A-bomb survivor on Japan's absence from nuke ban meeting

Terumi Tanaka (L), co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors, hands a protest statement to Kimitake Nakamura, head of the Foreign Ministry's Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department, at the ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2025, following the government's decision not to attend the following month's meeting of signatories of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as an observer.

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A-bomb survivor on Japan's absence from nuke ban meeting

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors, meets the press in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2025, as he visits the Japanese Foreign Ministry to lodge a protest over the government's decision not to attend the following month's meeting of signatories of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as an observer.

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[Breaking News]A-bomb survivor group co-chair Tanaka

TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 4 Kyodo - Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a reception celebrating the win in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2025. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb survivor group co-chair Tanaka

TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 4 Kyodo - Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a reception celebrating the win in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2025. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb survivor group co-chair Tanaka

TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 4 Kyodo - Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo, talks to supporters about winning the prize in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2025. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb survivor group co-chair Tanaka

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a reception celebrating the win in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2025.

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A-bomb survivor group co-chair Tanaka

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a reception celebrating the win in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2025.

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A-bomb survivor group co-chair Tanaka

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a reception celebrating the win in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2025.

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A-bomb survivor group co-chair Tanaka

Terumi Tanaka (back), co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, speaks at a reception celebrating the win in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2025.

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A-bomb survivor group co-chair Tanaka

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo, talks to supporters about winning the prize in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2025.

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A-bomb survivor group co-chair Tanaka

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo, talks to supporters about winning the prize in Tokyo on Feb. 1, 2025.

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A-bomb survivor Ogura in Norway

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 13 Kyodo - Keiko Ogura, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, speaks about her experiences at a junior high school in a municipality in the greater Oslo region, Norway, on Dec. 12, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Japan PM Ishiba meets A-bomb survivor group

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) poses with Terumi Tanaka (C) and Toshiyuki Mimaki, representatives of Nihon Hidankyo, the leading Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets A-bomb survivor group

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) meets with Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets A-bomb survivor group

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets A-bomb survivor group

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks to reporters after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets A-bomb survivor group

Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks to reporters after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets A-bomb survivor group

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (3rd from R) meets with members of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets A-bomb survivor group

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) poses with Terumi Tanaka (4th from L), co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, and other members of the leading Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets A-bomb survivor group

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (far R) meets with Terumi Tanaka (2nd from R), co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, and other members of the leading Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2025.

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Japan PM Ishiba meets A-bomb survivor group

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from R) meets with Terumi Tanaka (3rd from R), co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, and other members of the leading Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors that received the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Jan. 8, 2025.

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A-bomb survivor Sasamori

Photo taken on July 29, 2022, shows a portrait of Shigeko Sasamori, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city of Hiroshima who underwent reconstructive surgery for her scars in the United States. The New York Times reported on Jan. 2, 2025, that she died on Dec. 15, 2024, at her home in Marina del Rey, California. She was 92.

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A-bomb survivor Ogura in Norway

Keiko Ogura (front), a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, speaks about her experiences at a junior high school in a municipality in the greater Oslo region, Norway, on Dec. 12, 2024.

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Nobel Peace Prize event in Oslo

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 12 Kyodo - Jiro Hamasumi (far L), who was exposed to radiation while in his mother's womb when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and a deputy secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group, speaks during an event to share his experience at Kuben high school in Oslo on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the group received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb survivor Ogura in Norway

Keiko Ogura (L), a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, speaks about her experiences at a junior high school in a municipality in the greater Oslo region, Norway, on Dec. 12, 2024.

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A-bomb survivor Ogura in Norway

Keiko Ogura, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, speaks about her experiences at a junior high school in a municipality in the greater Oslo region, Norway, on Dec. 12, 2024.

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A-bomb survivor Ogura in Norway

Keiko Ogura (C), a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, is welcomed as she visits a junior high school in a municipality in the greater Oslo region, Norway, on Dec. 12, 2024, to speak about her experiences.

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2nd-generation A-bomb survivor in Oslo

Emiko Honma (top, R), 74, second-generation atomic bomb survivor and director of Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks at the University of Oslo in the Norwegian capital on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the award ceremony for Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group was held.

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2nd-generation A-bomb survivor in Oslo

Emiko Honma, 74, second-generation atomic bomb survivor and director of Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks at the University of Oslo in the Norwegian capital on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the award ceremony for Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group was held.

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2nd-generation A-bomb survivor in Oslo

Emiko Honma, 74, second-generation atomic bomb survivor and director of Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks at the University of Oslo in the Norwegian capital on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the award ceremony for Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group was held.

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79th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks in a meeting between atomic bomb survivor groups and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2024, the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow calls G-7 summit "big failure"

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow meets the press in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 21, 2023. She calls the just-ended Group of Seven summit in the atomic-bombed city "a big failure."

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow calls G-7 summit 'big failure'

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow speaks during an interview in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 21, 2023. She calls the G-7 summit in the atomic bombed city "a big failure."

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow in interview

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow gives an interview in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on May 17, 2023.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow in interview

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow gives an interview in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 17, 2023.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow delivers a commemorative lecture at her alma mater Hiroshima Jogakuin University in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 15, 2023, as she receives an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow delivers a commemorative lecture at her alma mater Hiroshima Jogakuin University in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 15, 2023, as she receives an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow smiles after delivering a lecture at her alma mater Hiroshima Jogakuin University in the western Japan city of Hiroshima on May 15, 2023. She made the commemorative lecture as she received an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow smiles while delivering a commemorative lecture at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023, upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow receives honorary doctorate in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow receives an honorary doctorate at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023. Thurlow, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, was among those who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow's lecture in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow delivers a commemorative lecture at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023, upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the university.

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A-bomb survivor Thurlow receives honorary doctorate in Japan

Atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate Setsuko Thurlow receives an honorary doctorate at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on May 10, 2023. Thurlow, who survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, was among those who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

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At least 10 killed in explosion in NE DR Congo

STORY: At least 10 killed in explosion in NE DR Congo DATELINE: Jan. 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:52 LOCATION: KASINDI, DR Congo CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the church 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Swahili): PRINCE MUNGUIKO, Pastor of the church 3. various of local residents and the injured 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Swahili): JUSTINE MUKERWA, Survivor 5. various of rescue team and armed forces 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (French): CONSTANT NDIMA, Governor of North Kivu Province 7. various of caskets STORYLINE: At least ten people were killed in an improvised explosive device attack on Sunday in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Anthony Mwalushayi, spokesman for the DRC Armed Forces in the region, said about 39 people were seriously injured when a bomb exploded at a local church in Kasindi of North Kivu Province. SOUNDBITE 1 (Swahili): PRINCE MUNGUIKO, Pastor of the church "The bomb exploded when we were in the middle of worship just when the speaker started to preach. Ten minutes later, we saw a tragedy that ha

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A-bomb survivor attends Vienna nuclear confab

VIENNA, Austria - Terumi Tanaka, an atomic bomb survivor and secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A and H Bomb Sufferers Organizations, attends the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Austria on Dec. 8, 2014. He expressed hope that the abolition of nuclear waepons will be realized soon.

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Canada-residing A-bomb survivor appeals for nuke elimination

VIENNA, Austria - Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, currently residing in Canada, delivers a speech at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Austria on Dec. 8, 2014, calling for actions toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.

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A-bomb survivor hopes peace discussed more in election

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kazuo Okoshi, secretary general of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations (headed by Kazushi Kaneko), speaks at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, on Dec. 3, 2014, of the importance of discussing the issues of peace and the Constitution during the current campaign for the lower house election on Dec. 14.

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A-bomb survivor desires Japan's leadership in nuke disarmament

NAGASAKI, Japan - Masao Tomonaga, a survivor of an atomic bombing and honorary director of the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital, expresses in Nagasaki, Japan, on Dec. 3, 2014, his expectations that the Japanese government will exercise strong leadership in nuclear disarmament.

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A-bomb survivor to visit NY for nuke-free appeal

OSAKA, Japan - Masakazu Saito, 90, tells of his experience in surviving the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at his home in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in October 2014, hoping to visit New York next spring to appeal for an end to nuclear arms. Saito, then an Imperial Japanese Army second lieutenant, was severely injured at a military barracks some 1.8 kilometers from the epicenter in downtown Hiroshima.

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A-bomb survivor to visit NY for nuke-free appeal

OSAKA, Japan - Masakazu Saito, a 90-year-old survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, stands at his home in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in October 2014, speaking of his decision to visit New York next spring during the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons. In the background is his collection of antique clocks, all with their handles stopped at 8:15, the time when the bomb was dropped on the western Japan city on Aug. 6, 1945.

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Japanese poet recalls censorship of late friend's work

TOKYO, Japan - Poet Kiyoko Horiba stands on a beach near her home in Onjuku, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2014. She wonders why the postwar Allied occupation authorities had to cut a reference to the Japanese army's atrocities in Hiroshima A-bomb surviving poet Sadako Kurihara's poems in "Black Eggs" in 1946, if not the A-bomb part itself, as Horiba, also an A-bomb survivor, helped Kurihara publish the full original version in 1983. (Photo by Makoto Hori)