Nihon Hidankyo

Japan

Nobel Prize in Peace, 2024Asia-Pacific

Awarded for

Efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons, using survivor testimony to show they must never be used again

The story behind the prize

The hibakusha are survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima (6 August 1945) and Nagasaki (9 August 1945). Through their testimony they helped build the 'nuclear taboo', the worldwide norm that nuclear weapons must never be used again.

About

Japanese grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors (hibakusha) from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, founded in 1956.