The Japanese delegation headed by Shigemitsu Tanaka, hibakusha of Nagasaki and co-president of the organisation awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Nihon Hidankyo, visited and participated in different public events around Europe.

In Barcelona, Nihon Hidankyo was received by the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, and the mayor of Granollers and vicepresident of Mayors for Peace, Alba Barnusell. Afterwards, they were received by the president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Salvador Illa, and the minister for the European Union and Foreign Affairs, Jaume Duch.

France welcomed the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Nihon Hidankyo, from the 23rd to the 26th of January. Two gatherings marked the stay of the delegation in France. In Paris, on Thursday, January 23, the CGT (General Confederation of Labour), within the framework and with the support of the “National Collective of Peace Marches,” had the honour of receiving the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winners in the Montreuil labour exchange.

From the 24th to the 26th, the Japanese delegation went to the Bretagne region, visiting cities like Rennes or Saint-Malo. On Sunday, January 26, Nihon Hidankyo launched an appeal in front of the nuclear submarine base of Île Longue in Crozon (Finistère). In this spot in 1995, 20,000 people participated in a march “for the cessation of nuclear tests and for a world without nuclear weapons” in the presence of peace activists from Japan.

Link to the recording of the Barcelona ceremony