Survivors urge Abe to correct inaccurate views
The Swiss-based International Peace Bureau nominated the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers, or Hidankyo, for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, the third time the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have been nominated.
About 60,000 people who survived the blasts and the radiation and fires are still alive. These survivors are against the ongoing shift in Japan's security policy, which they fear will involve their country in armed clashes overseas, and want the Japanese government to admit the country's responsibility for launching the war of aggression that eventually led to the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In a report issued on Thursday, advisers to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that by expanding its aggression throughout Asia after the Manchurian Incident in 1931, Japan caused much damage in Asia through a "reckless war".
