The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations – commonly known as Nihon Hidankyo – received the accolade one year before the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and at a time of growing concern about the possible use ofnuclear weapons. The Nobel c...
The representatives of Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, from left Toshiyuki Mimaki, Terumi Tanaka, and Shigemitsu Tanaka, held a banner while on the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway on Tuesday. The group was awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace...
Japanese Survivor of Atomic Bomb Recalls Its Horrors in Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech More Kin Cheung Terumi Tanaka, a representative of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizati...
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In Japan, forecasters say Typhoon Khanun is on course to dump prolonged, heavy rains on one of the main islands this week. This has forced commemorations for the Nagasaki atomic bombing event indoors. Local media says Khanun killed at least two people in the southern Okinawa r...
Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, after the atomic bombRuins in Nagasaki, Japan, September 16, 1945, one month after the dropping of an atomic bomb on the city. 3 of 3 The impact and aftermath of Nagasaki's bombingHear Encyclopædia Britannica editor Michael Ray talk about the atomic bombing of Na...
TOKYO, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Five atomic bomb survivor groups in Japan's Nagasaki protested on Thursday against a civilian nuclear cooperation treaty between Japan and India that was approved by Japan's parliament a day earlier. The groups, formed mainly by survivors from the U.S. atomic bombin...
In such a case, the use of an atomic bomb was really needed? This has been a controversial issue. Japanese people in Hiro艧ima and Nagazaki, they understood what happened after the war. The dimensions of the destruction of bombs were laid in hardly understood th...
A uranium-core atomic bomb named "Little Boy," dropped onto Hiroshima in western Japan by a U.S. bomber, exploded above the city at 8:15 a.m. local time on Aug. 6, 1945, killing an estimated 140,000 people by the end of the same year. ...
Japanese atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who are also known as Hibakusha....