Replicas of Nobel Prize Medal, Diploma Displayed in Hiroshima

Replicas of Nobel Prize Medal, Diploma Displayed in Hiroshima

Toshiyuki Mimaki, an executive of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo), views replicas of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma awarded to the group on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Tuesday.
Toshiyuki Mimaki, an executive of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo), views replicas of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma awarded to the group on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Tuesday.

   Hiroshima, May 13 (Jiji Press)--The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Tuesday opened an exhibition of replicas of a Nobel Peace Prize medal and a diploma that hibakusha atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo received in December last year.
   "I would like (visitors) to feel that the world must be at peace," Toshiyuki Mimaki, 83, a co-chairperson of the group, officially called the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, said after seeing the exhibits.
   The replicas will be displayed in a free panel exhibition commemorating Hidankyo's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize on the first floor of the museum in Hiroshima, western Japan, until Aug. 31.

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