In Hiroshima peace park, visitors hope Nobel win will boost peace efforts

Visitors look at the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city in 1945 at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, on the following day of The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo) winning the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, in Hiroshima, western Japan, October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Visitors to the memorial park for Hiroshima's atomic bombing said they hoped Friday's Nobel Peace Prize for Japan's atomic bomb survivors would boost efforts for world peace and spur world leaders to visit the site.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to the Nihon Hidankyo group, representing survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its decades-long efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.