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

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

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, ...

A hibakusha representing this year’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient group delivered a dire and urgent warning about the risk of a nuclear weapon being used. “Any one of you could become either a ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

With the ranks of hibakusha rapidly dwindling, a group of atomic bomb survivors' efforts to pass down their experiences and achieve a world free of nuclear weapons have earned them a Nobel Peace ...

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 ...

In some places, young volunteers are working with hibakusha to succeed their personal story telling when they are gone. The first U.S. atomic bombing killed 140,000 people in the city of Hiroshima.

Nihon Hidankyo is the only nationwide group of those survivors in Japan, with members in all of the country’s 47 prefectures. In the decades since its founding, the group has sent survivors ...

The number of survivors holding a health book stood at 99,130 as at March 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...