Nihon Hidankyo’s Bittersweet Receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize
The prize is a reminder that we must abolish and eliminate nuclear weapons.
Nobel Peace Prize 2024 Goes to Japanese Survivors and Anti-Nuclear Advocates
Prize committee highlights Nihon Hidankyo’s role in making nuclear weapons taboo via grass-roots support for their elimination.
A-bomb survivors use Nobel Peace Prize to share anti-nuke message with the young
Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was awarded for its decadeslong activism against nuclear weapons. The survivors, known as hibakusha, see the prize and the international attention as their last chance to get their message out to younger generations.
‘Those Fighting for Peace in Gaza’ Should Have Won – Nobel Peace Prize Winner
The co-chair of a Japanese anti-nuclear body, which won the Nobel Peace Prize, says “those fighting hard for peace in Gaza" should have won.
Hibakusha win Nobel Peace Prize: Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors' final push for nuclear disarmament
Now, with their average age at 85.6, the hibakusha are increasingly frustrated that their fear of a growing nuclear threat and push to eliminate nuclear weapons are not fully understood by younger generations.
Meet the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize—Nihon Hidankyo
Last year, jailed Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against the oppression of Iranian women. Winners are awarded a medal, diploma, and 11 million Swedish kroner, the equivalent of slightly more than $1 million. The ceremony for the award will be held in Oslo on Dec. 10.
Discrimination Still Haunts Japan's Nobel-Winning A-Bomb Survivors
Growing up, he constantly heard rumours that survivors carried diseases and their future offspring might be tainted by the radiation from the August 1945 blast. Sakuma left Hiroshima to seek a new life in Tokyo.
Atomic bomb survivors’ group wins the Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO/TOKYO >> Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries that have nuclear weapons not to use them.
Hiroshima survivor surprised Gaza fighters didn’t win Nobel Peace Prize
Toshiyuki Mimaki, a Hiroshima bombing survivor, expressed surprise that those defending Gaza did not win the Nobel Peace Prize while accepting it on behalf of Nihon Hidankyo on Friday. At a press conference,
‘US, Japan must apologize’: Nobel Peace Prize sparks mixed feelings for oft-forgotten Korean A-bomb victims
An estimated 50,000 Koreans in Hiroshima and 20,000 in Nagasaki were exposed to radiation during the US’ atomic bombings — with an estimated 40,000 dead
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As Japanese WW2 nuclear survivors’ group wins Nobel Peace Prize, a new book sheds light on today’s dangers
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese nuclear survivors’ body, the Nihon Hidankyo, is meant as a global heads-up over ...
It’s the news hibakusha had waited decades to finally hear
Toshiyuki Mimaki was in Hiroshima watching the live broadcast of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on his smartphone.
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Hibakusha group receives Nobel Peace Prize for “demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a ...
Nihon Hidankyo | No more ‘hibakusha’
By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to Nihon Hidankyo or the Japan Confederation of Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Sufferers ...
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Nihon Hidankyo born out of sense hibakusha could not sit idly by
“The issue of eliminating nuclear weapons is not only one for hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors),” Tanaka told a news conference on Oct. 12, a day after the organization won the Nobel prize.
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Echoes of Hiroshima: Stigma and Survival
Kunihiko Sakuma, a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, and fellow hibakusha continue to face discrimination and stigma. Although the recent Nobel Peace Prize for Nihon Hidankyo acknowledges their ...
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As the world lurches towards nuclear conflict, we cannot afford to forget the catastrophe unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
As the world lurches towards nuclear conflict, we cannot afford to forget the catastrophe unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Tokyo grave of hibakusha with no relatives faces uncertain future
Deceased hibakusha who share their final resting place at a common grave on the outskirts of Tokyo will soon receive some ...