Nihon Hidankyo, an organization representing survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has issued a ...

Debate is growing over plans to revise the country’s long-standing non-nuclear policy. Hibakusha groups fear Tokyo may ease ...

TOKYO — The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the shrinking time they have left to convey the firsthand horror they ...

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Japanese grassroots organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work to “achieve a world free of nuclear weapons,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a Friday ...

On December 11, following the December 10 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to award Nihon Hidankyo, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum will take place at the Oslo University Aula. Organized by the Norwegian Nobel ...

In late September, amid the lingering summer heat in Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, were once again collecting signatures. Members of seven survivors’ ...

Toshiyuki Namikawa, left, principal of Hiroshima municipal Midorimachi Junior High School, speaks with students in Hiroshima. The booklet is still used as part of the school’s peace education ...

TOKYO — 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 ...