Japanese youth carries on message of prominent atomic bomb survivor

Yuta Takahashi, 24, is working to secure the abolition of nuclear weapons through a group he launched that aims to carry on the wishes of a prominent atomic bomb survivor.

In naming Nihon Hidankyo as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner in October, the Norwegian Nobel Committee noted that “new generations in Japan are carrying forward the experience and the message of the witnesses.”

“Our responsibility is being tested,” said Takahashi, who was born in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, and now lives in Yokohama.