The hibakusha's testimonies seemed to have a strong impact on them. 'Sick of peace education' Meanwhile, Mohaddese Shukhi, a third-year high school student who immigrated to Norway from Iran, ...

Pax Christi International issued the following statement yesterday:On the 8th anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (#TPNW), and in this year that marks 80 years since the ...

According to the welfare ministry, the number of hibakusha with victim certificates stood at 99,130 as of the end of March, ...

The sketch is one of 13 so-called "A-bomb drawings" by A-bomb survivors, or hibakusha, which have been sent to Oslo, Norway, to be displayed at the Nobel Peace Center's exhibit "A Message to ...

As global threats grow, aging survivors of US atomic attacks on Japan feel growing urgency to remind the world of nuclear war ...

For almost 20 years, high school art students in Hiroshima turning the harrowing testimonies of atom bomb survivors into paintings ...

Now, with their average age at 85.6, the hibakusha are increasingly frustrated that their fear of a growing nuclear threat and push to eliminate nuclear weapons are not fully understood by younger ...

Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Barry Frechette and produced by Nobuko Saito Cleary, Paper Lanterns tells the moving true story of Shigeaki Mori, a hibakusha ...

For many Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their relatives, Friday's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Japanese organization against nuclear weapons ...

The hibakusha were also a counternarrative to a Japan that was developing into a high-tech economic giant fueled, in some cases, by nuclear power. The 2011 earthquake and tsunami, ...

The hibakusha, or survivors of the atomic bombings, are entitled to medical care and may receive allowances. Read more at ...