NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AWARDED TO JAPANESE ANTI-NUCLEAR WEAPON ORGANIZATION NIHON HIDANKYO

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese anti-nuclear weapon organization made of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.“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 Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

The group has raised awareness about nuclear weapons around the world by drawing on personal stories, creating educational campaigns based on their own experience, and issuing urgent warnings against the spread and use of nuclear weapons.

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