People in Japan's Hiroshima welcome Nobel win for atomic bomb survivors

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Residents and visitors in Japan's Hiroshima welcome the Nobel committee's decision to award this year's peace prize to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors pushing for a nuclear weapons ban. The committee noted on Friday that next year will mark 80 years since two American atomic bombs killed an estimated 214,000 inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, prompting Japan's surrender and the end of World War II.

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00:00The

00:04Japanese

00:09people

00:14are

00:19suffering

00:24from

00:29poverty.

00:56I think it's really important at the moment

00:58considering what's going on over in the Middle East.

01:00I wish people would sort of take a bit more notice

01:02of what learned from the past

01:04to come towards the present.

01:06But I don't think that's...

01:07people are not going to take notice.

01:09It seems to be human nature.

01:10They don't take notice of what's happened in the past

01:12or what's going to affect in the future.

01:14I think it's really wonderful though

01:16that they've actually received a Peace Prize.

01:28Thank you for watching my video.

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