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, ...

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

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 ...

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

Children of hibakusha in Nagasaki previously filed a similar lawsuit, but their claims were denied in both the first and second rulings. They have since appealed to the Supreme Court.

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...