Nihon Hidankyo held a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday to report on its reception of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize at the award ceremony in Norway in December. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/02/japan/society/hidankyo-reports-nobel-prize-ceremony/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha
Nihon Hidankyo has expressed disappointment over being denied the opportunity to discuss Japan’s participation in a U.N. conference on banning nuclear weapons during a meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/08/japan/politics/ishiba-hidankyo-meeting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki #shigeruishiba
Members of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of hibakusha, made a visit to a cenotaph for deceased victims in Hiroshima to mark its receipt of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/18/japan/nihon-hidankyo-hiroshima-visit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #hiroshima
The Hiroshima High Court has turned down second-generation hibakusha's appeal for state compensation, upholding a ruling by the Hiroshima District Court. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/13/japan/crime-legal/second-generation-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hiroshima #hibakusha #japanesecourts #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #discrimination
Hibakusha from the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, have visited a high school in Oslo to share their experiences with students. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/12/japan/hibakusha-experiences-students/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #students #hibakusha #nihonhidankyo #norway
This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be presented Tuesday to Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, which lobbies against the weapons now resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/nobel-peace-prize-ceremony-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki #vladimirputin #russia #russiaukrainewar
Decades of work by now-deceased hibakusha atomic bomb survivors led to Nihon Hidankyo, a group of hibakusha, winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/japan-hibakusha-activities-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #atomicbombings #nagasaki #hiroshima #nihonhidankyo #hibakusha
Nagasaki native Kosuzu Harada has spent over a decade sharing the harrowing atomic bomb experiences of her late grandfather, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, one of the few individuals officially recognized as having survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/double-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #hibakusha #nagasaki #hiroshima #nobelprize #awards
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not truly understand the destructive power of nuclear weapons, a 92-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki said on the eve of his Japanese survivors' group receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/nihon-hidankyo-putin-nukes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki #vladimirputin #russia #russiaukrainewar
Those exposed while in the womb or during early childhood to radiation from the atomic bombs dropped during World War II said they are determined to demand at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony Tuesday that nuclear weapons be abolished. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/09/japan/womb-radiation-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #hibakusha
A delegation from Nihon Hidankyo, an atomic bomb survivors group based in Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, have arrived in Oslo to attend the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/09/japan/hidankyo-oslo-arrival/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #nobelprize #awards #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #terumitanaka #norway #hibakusha #nobelpeaceprize
The U.N. General Assembly adopted by a majority vote a Japan-led resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, with support from 152 countries including the United States and Britain, at its plenary meeting. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/03/japan/un-nuclear-weapons-abolition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #un #nobelprize #space #nihonhidankyo #hibakusha
A response of sorts to “Oppenheimer,” a film under production called “What Divides Us” shines a light on the individuals who worked together to document Hiroshima after the nuclear bombing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/11/27/film/what-divides-us-hiroshima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #wwii #hiroshima #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #hibakusha
The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, achieved its initial crowdfunding goal on the first day of its campaign to raise money to cover travel costs to Oslo for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/16/japan/nihon-hidankyo-crowdfunding-goal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha
A U.N. committee on disarmament passed by a majority vote Friday a Japan-proposed resolution calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/02/japan/un-panel-adopts-japan-nuke-resolution/ #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki
Nihon Hidankyo, a group of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors, said it will send 31 people to attend the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to be held on Dec. 10. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/02/japan/hibakusha-attend-nobel-ceremony/ #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki
U.S. President Joe Biden has congratulated the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, on being selected the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/14/japan/biden-congratulates-nihon-hidankyo/ #japan #usjapanrelations #us #atomicbombings #nihonhidankyo #joebiden #nobelprize #nuclearweapons #hibakusha
A day after Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, members of the group expressed gratitude for the award, but also noted the pressing need to ensure that nuclear weapons remain taboo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/12/japan/nobel-peace-prize-nihon-hidankyo/ #japan #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #nobelprize #awards #hiroshima #nagasaki #hibakusha #wwii #atomicbombings
People in Hiroshima and Nagasaki reiterated their call for peace Saturday, a day after Nihon Hidankyo was named this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/12/japan/hiroshima-nagasaki-peace-call/ #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects a widely held fear that the planet has never been closer to nuclear war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/12/japan/politics/nobel-prize-nuclear-brink-warning/ #japan #politics #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki
