Nihon Hidankyo movement made up of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs in 1945
Nihon Hidankyo movement made up of hibakusha - survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
At a press conference in Hiroshima on Friday, Toshiyuki Mimaki, the head of Nihon Hidankyo, appeared overwhelmed by the news, pinching his cheek to check he was not dreaming and welling up in tears. “The nuclear powers are modernising and upgrading their arsenals ... and threats are being made to use nuclear weapons in ongoing warfare,” said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, the new chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.
There are 106,000 living survivors of the two atomic bombings, who are known in Japanese as hibakusha and now have an average age of almost 86. In 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima and participated in a ceremony where senior figures in Nihon Hidankyo featured prominently. They included Mikiso Iwasa, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, a former chair of the organisation and one of the world’s foremost crusaders against nuclear weapons.
Japan’s prime minister Shigeru Ishiba said the award was “extremely meaningful” for a group that had long worked for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
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