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 ...

One of the survivors of 6 August 1945 spoke at the Community of Sant'Egidio peace summit in Rome, saying that she continues ...

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 ...

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 ...

As 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I decided to visit these cities.

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 ...

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 ...

An atomic bomb survivor from Japan has urged the abolition of nuclear arms at a high-level UN meeting, stressing that human beings cannot coexist with nuclear weapons. Tanaka Satoshi, a senior member ...

As Japan prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this year, the country’s top diplomat has renewed calls for an end to nuclear weapons. The message was ...

Inspired by a true story of survival.

Tanaka Terumi was thirteen years old when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, in August, 1945. The blast knocked him unconscious. After he came to, he and his mother walked through ...