Japanese atomic bomb survivor organisation Nihon Hidankyo conferred with Nobel Peace Prize 2024
The organization Nihon Hidankyo, consisting of survivors of the atomic bomb in Japan, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2024. Nihon Hidankyo is a group that speaks for Hibakusha from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who are survivors of atomic bombs. Having branches in every Japanese prefecture, it brings together almost all organized Hibakusha groups. Its leaders as well as its members are also survivors.
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The organization honored for efforts to achieve a nuclear-free world
The Nobel Committee announced on its official X page that the organization was awarded the peace prize for “efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”.
“The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” the Nobel Committee said on its official X page.
It added, “In awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honour all atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, have chosen to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and engagement for peace”.
A presentation of the Nobel Prizes will take place in Oslo, Norway on Dec. 10, a date which marks the anniversary of the death of Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel.
