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OSLO (Reuters) -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 who ...
Suzuki, whose parents both survived the Nagasaki bombing, said the survivors — known in Japanese as “hibakusha” — were now more than 85 years old on average, and that the ceremony on ...
The memorials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki contain lists of the names of the hibakusha who are known to have died since the bombings. Updated annually on the anniversaries of the bombings, as of August 2024, the memorials record the names of more than 540,000 hibakusha; 344,306 in Hiroshima [9] and 198,785 in Nagasaki. [10]
Upon hearing about Nihon Hidankyo's awarding of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, Mimaki announced his disbelief at a press conference in Hiroshima's city hall, stating that he expected the award to go to "go to people working for peace in Gaza". [4] [10] [11] Mimaki also stated that the suffering of Palestinians in 2024 was "like in Japan 80 years ago."
An atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people. A second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed 70,000 more.
He used a film crew to document the effects of the bombings in early 1946. The film crew shot 27,000 m (90,000 ft) of film, resulting in a three-hour documentary titled The Effects of the Atomic Bombs Against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The documentary included images from hospitals, burned-out buildings and cars, and rows of skulls and bones on ...
A survivor of the 1945 Nagasaki nuclear blast has accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of a group representing survivors of the US atomic bombings, and called for a world free from ...
Masako Wada (born 1943) is a Japanese hibakusha as a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, who is assistant secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations). [1] Her organization won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. [2] Wada represented the organization for the Nobel Committee telephone ...