Having survived the atomic bomb that flattened his hometown of Hiroshima when he was nine months old, Kunihiko Sakuma has never forgotten the stain it left on him in the eyes of some of his fellow Japanese.

Seven organizations in Hiroshima Prefecture for hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, held a joint press conference at Hiroshima City Hall

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,

Israel has dropped at least 75,000 tonnes of bombs on the Gaza Strip, more than six times the size of those the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nihon

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.

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.

A Cameroonian ambassador in Japan recently visited here to congratulate the Nagasaki Prefecture chapter of the atomic bomb survivors' grou･･･