Hidankyo chairperson Tomoyuki Mimaki, who was standing by at the Hiroshima City Hall for the announcement, cheered and teared ...

“It is therefore alarming that today this taboo against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure,” explained Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Jørgen Watne Frydnes. Founded in 1956 by ...

A Japanese grassroots movement made up of atomic bomb survivors has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings ...

This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement representing the survivors of the 1945 ...

Announcing the winner at a ceremony in Oslo, the Nobel committee's chair, Joergen Watne Frydnes, described Nihon Hidankyo as a group that has "contributed greatly to the establishment of the ...

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo. Its members are survivors of the August 1945 U.S. nuclear bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against the use of ...

Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure.” Last month, Russian President ...

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) JORGEN WATNE FRYDNES: ...To the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo... ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: When the news reached anti ...

“The hibakusha help us to describe the indescribable, to think the unthinkable, and to somehow grasp the incomprehensible pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons,” Jorgen Watne ...