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Nihon Hidankyo | No more ‘hibakusha’

Nihon Hidankyo | No more ‘hibakusha’

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Atomic bomb survivors and members of Nihon Hidankyo, a country-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers, including Assistant Secretary General Toshiko Hamanaka, Co-chairperson Terumi Tanaka, Assistant Secretary General Masako Wada, Assistant Secretary General Jiro Hamasumi attend a press conference on the following day of Nihon Hidankyo winning the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, in Tokyo, […]

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Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Group Nihon Hidankyo Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Group Nihon Hidankyo Wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Oslo / Tokyo: Japanese organisation 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. Many survivors of the only two nuclear bombs ever to be used in conflict, who are known […]

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Nihon Hidankyo | No more ‘hibakusha’

Nobel Peace Prize will show that nuclear weapons can be abolished, winner says

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Toshiyuki Mimaki, president of Nihon Hidankyo. File. | Photo Credit: AP The head of Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo said on Friday (September 11, 2024) that the group’s win of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize would give a major boost to its efforts to demonstrate that the abolition of nuclear weapons was possible. “It would be a […]

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