ICAN leader Fihn visits Nagasaki for first time

January 13, 2018

Nagasaki- Beatrice Fihn, leader of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, or ICAN, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, visited the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Friday.

It was the ICAN executive director's first visit to Nagasaki or Hiroshima, the two atomic-bombed Japanese cities. She is expected to visit Hiroshima shortly.

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, western Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, in the closing days of World War II and another on Nagasaki three days later.

At an opening event for an exhibition that started Friday at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum to mark ICAN's winning of the Nobel prize, Fihn said that the international coalition of nongovernmental organizations aims to spread throughout the world the view that nuclear weapons are unacceptable. Jiji Press