FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) hugs with atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori as he visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man who survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and was decades later hugged by Barack Obama during the then U.S. President's visit to the city, said he hoped Friday's Nobel Peace Prize would help put a focus on nuclear disarmament.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to the Nihon Hidankyo group of atomic bomb survivors for its work warning the world about the dangers of nuclear arms and bearing witness to the suffering unleashed upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only two cities to have ever sustained such attacks.
