These survivors, known as the Hibakusha, are living witnesses to the unimaginable devastation wrought by nuclear weapons. By ...

The prize was awarded to the organization, also known as Hibakusha, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Joergen Watne Frydnesv praised its efforts in ...

The Saint Paul–Nagasaki Sister City Committee, the oldest sister-city relationship between the U.S. and Japan, has a long ...

Toshiyuki Mimaki, a Hiroshima bombing survivor, expressed surprise that those defending Gaza did not win the Nobel Peace ...

The Japanese hibakusha movement began in 1956, a decade after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombings, when the survivors ...

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- ...

According to Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel, the award goes to “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”  Though Alfred Nobel ...