Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who are also known as Hibakusha, won the Nobel Peace Prize 2024.
- In 1945 the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan to bring an end to World War Two and avoid a hugely costly invasion of the Japanese home islands.
- The two bombs killed an estimated 120,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while many thousands more died of burns and radiation injuries in the following years.
- The two atomic bombs remain the only nuclear weapons used in war.
- Nihon Hidankyo is the only nation-wide organization of A-bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Hibakusha).
- It has member organizations in all 47 Japanese prefectures, thus representing almost all organized Hibakusha.
- Hidankyo is cooperating with those organizations in their work for the defense of the living and rights of these people.
- One of the main objectives of Hindankyo is prevention of nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons, including the signing of an international agreement for a total ban and elimination of nuclear weapons.
- Last year, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to to Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi.
