LIVE: Peace Prize Laureate Representative Arrives in Norway

Thank you. I'm going to start now. Thank you. So they will come out here. To the mics, please. Sorry? Yeah, to the mics. Yeah, here to the mics here? Yeah. Okay. We come here to the mics. They will just give a statement because they are old. They had a long travel. It's eight hours time difference. So we just have to think about their health. That's the most important. So they have to go to the hotel and have a good night's sleep. So they will come here with a short statement. And TV2Q will have one question for the pool. So that's what we can do here. I'm sorry. I'm sure you would like to have a long interview. But it's not possible. So one question. Is it going to be translated? It will be translated. Awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So any minute. Max ten minutes. Five, seven minutes. Thank you. Okay. They are coming out in two minutes now. So all the three co-chairs like to give us one statement each. So all the three will say something. And then it's one question from TV2Q. So they will be here any minute. So they will be standing here. We have the interpreter. For the camera, where is the best interpreter? On this side or this side of the people? This side. Okay. And then the chair of the Nobel Committee will also be standing a little bit from back here. You can ask him a question if you want. So when they are actually coming out. Yes, I do. Like this. Close here. And then come a little bit more this way or this. Like this. And then close to this microphone. In the middle. Okay. A little bit closer to the microphone. Thank you so much for being here and for welcoming us. It's a great honor to be here, having received the Nobel Peace Prize. And we're sure we'll be having much to do with you over the coming days. October 11th, the day of the Nobel Peace Prize. I was at the Hiroshima City Hall. I was surprised to hear that it was the Nobel Peace Prize. I'm very honored to be here in Oslo today. Thank you very much. On the day of October 11th, I was watching the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize from the City Hall in Hiroshima. And the moment I heard the words Nihon Kidankyo, I was just so overwhelmed with surprise. I'm so honored to be here in Oslo now. Thank you so much, everybody. My name is Tanaka Shigemitsu. I believe that this Nobel Peace Prize was awarded not only to us, but to all of those who have gone before us. All of the hibakusha who have already passed away. And this is indeed an award for all of the survivors as well. I'm very grateful for this, but also there is still a great amount of work that we have to do. The hibakusha are still not well known enough. So we will continue to do our best. Thank you very much. I have one more question for Chief Tokyo. So the question, we'd like to have a brief remark from each of the three representatives. We will be soon entering, of course, the ceremony itself, but also the series of events in these coming days. I'd like to ask how you are feeling at the moment and what your message to the world is. I will be speaking at the ceremony on behalf of Nihon Hidankyo, and I'm very nervous about this. Of course, we are now quite advanced in our age as well, so it's not as easy as it was for us to continue our activities as well. However, I hope to, with a powerful message at that time, convey the appeal that we have continued to work for, to struggle for over the many decades until now, particularly to pass this on to young people for them to take this message on. I despise both war and nuclear weapons. We hope that it will be this message of peace that we will continue to spread over the three days of the schedule that we will be here. We're somewhat nervous about this, but we will do our best to convey this message to the world. 80 years ago, the atomic bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The number of atomic bombs was reduced to zero. However, now there are more than 12,000 nuclear weapons. We will do our best to never make another atomic bomb. There are more than 12,000 such weapons existing in this world. We will do all that we can to ensure that no one else becomes a hibakusha, that no one else suffers as we have done as well. The right side, please. Excuse me. This side, please. Thank you. Smile, smile. Okay, thank you very much. We will let the three gentlemen join their car and go to their hotel. Thank you very much. We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you very much.