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.

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.

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.

Those who lived through the nuclear attacks of 1945 have dedicated their lives to recounting their experiences of loss and the physical and emotional toll.

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.

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.

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,

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