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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2024: JAPANESE ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS GROUP NIHON HIDANKYO WINS
- AS IT HAPPENED

By Kate Abnett, Rupam Jain, Farouq Suleiman, Stephen Farrell, Sharique Nasim,
Marc Jones, Kylie Maclellan, Hani Richter and Zoe Law
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SUMMARY


 * Peace Prize goes to Japanese anti-nuclear weapons group
 * Nihon Hidankyo is made up of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors
 * Previous peace winners include Nelson Mandela
 * Literature, chemistry, physics and medicine winners
 * Here's our Tokyo bureau's coverage in Japanese
 * Read our wrapup about Friday's Peace Prize winners







WE'RE WRAPPING UP OUR NOBEL PRIZE WEEK COVERAGE

15 hours ago
06:30 PDT

By
Farouq Suleiman

Shigemitsu Tanaka, a member of the organisation Nihon Hidankyo, which won the
Nobel Peace Prize, cries after the winner was announced in Nagasaki, Japan
October 11, 2024. Kyodo/via REUTERS

We're ending our Live coverage of Friday's Nobel Peace Prize, which put a focus
on nuclear disarmament by awarding Japanese atomic bomb survivors' organisation
Nihon Hidankyo.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the group won "for its efforts to achieve a
world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony
that nuclear weapons must never be used again".

This capped off a week of 2024 Nobel prize winners.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to scientists Victor Ambros
and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how
multicellular organisms grow and live.

On Tuesday, the physics prize went to AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey
Hinton for their discoveries and inventions in machine learning.

Wednesday's chemistry prize went to the trio of David Baker, John Jumper and
Demis Hassabis for work decoding the structure of proteins and creating new
ones, yielding advances in areas such as drug development.

Nobel Literature Prize recipient South Korean author Han Kang - her country's
first literature prize recipient - won on Thursday for her "intense poetic prose
that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".

You can catch up on our Live coverage of the Medicine, Literature, chemistry
and physics winners.

The final Nobel Prize of 2024, in economics, will be awarded on Monday.




'TRULY WONDERFUL' - TEARFUL JAPANESE CELEBRATE NOBEL WIN BY ATOMIC BOMB
SURVIVORS GROUP

15 hours ago
06:04 PDT

By

Irene Wang and Angie Teo

58-YEAR-OLD TOKYO RESIDENT, YOSHIKO WATANABE

> “They are a group of people delivering the message to the world, so as a
> Japanese I think this is truly wonderful, and I can only express my gratitude
> to those who awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I’m sorry, I can’t help but
> crying.”

53-YEAR-OLD EMPLOYEE AT REAL ESTATE AGENCY, RYOSUKE KOBAYASHI

> “As a Japanese I feel extremely happy that they won the Nobel Peace Prize. I
> hope this will further raise the global awareness about peace.”

78-YEAR-OLD TOKYO RESIDENT, OKUUCHI TOMOKO

> “I think there are many people who don’t fully understand what an atomic bomb
> is, so I think Japan should do the utmost to raise awareness about it. I hope
> by receiving an international award, it will help us to spread the message
> even more.”




'WE ROSE UP' - A SURVIVOR SHARES HER STORY

16 hours ago
05:53 PDT





NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT GROUP HOPES NOBEL PRIZE WILL COMBAT APATHY

16 hours ago
05:25 PDT

By
Cecile Mantovani

A coalition campaigning against nuclear weapons said on Friday it hoped the
award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo would
counter apathy surrounding the growing risk of their use.

The Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won
the Peace Prize in 2017 for its efforts to promote compliance with the U.N.
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Daniel Hogsta, its deputy director, told Reuters he was "absolutely thrilled"
for Nihon Hidankyo.

"It couldn't have come at a better time," he said. "I mean, it is generally
recognised that the risk of the use of nuclear weapons right now is as high or
perhaps even higher than it's ever been."

He cited the Ukraine war, where Russia has been warning that growing Western
involvement increases the danger that it could resort to nuclear weapons.

"But there's unfortunately too much apathy," Hogsta said. "And what Nihon
Hidankyo have shown us, and why this award is so important, is that people and
political leaders need to be motivated for action."




SOME MORE ABOUT PEACE PRIZE WINNER NIHON HIDANKYO

16 hours ago
05:15 PDT

By
Niklas Pollard

Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo is a grassroots movement of atomic bomb
survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who are also known as Hibakusha.

The fates of those who survived the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were long
concealed and neglected, especially in the initial years after the end of the
war.

Local Hibakusha associations, along with victims of nuclear weapons tests in the
Pacific, formed the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations
in 1956.

The organisation, whose name was shortened in Japanese to Nihon Hidankyo, would
become the largest and most influential Hibakusha organisation in Japan.

Through the years, Nihon Hidankyo has provided thousands of witness accounts
relating the experience of the nuclear bombs.

It has issued resolutions and public appeals, and sent annual delegations to
bodies such as the United Nations and peace conferences to advocate nuclear
disarmament.

The movement has helped drive global opposition to nuclear weapons through the
force of the survivors' testimonies while also creating educational campaigns
and issuing stark warnings about the spread and use of nuclear arms.




'I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S REAL'

17 hours ago
04:48 PDT


Nihon Hidankyo co-chair Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing
of Hiroshima, at a news conference in Hiroshima, Japan October 11, 2024,
Kyodo/via REUTERS

"I can't believe it's real," Nihon Hidankyo co-chair Toshiyuki Mimaki told a
press conference in Hiroshima, as he held back tears.

Mimaki, a survivor himself, said the award would give a major boost to its
efforts to demonstrate that the abolition of nuclear weapons was possible.

"(The win) will be a great force to appeal to the world that the abolition of
nuclear weapons and everlasting peace can be achieved," he said. "Nuclear
weapons should absolutely be abolished."




'NUCLEAR WEAPONS MUST NEVER BE USED AGAIN' - US AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN

17 hours ago
04:41 PDT





FOR HIROSHIMA SURVIVOR, NOBEL PUTS FOCUS ON DENUCLEARISATION

17 hours ago
04:36 PDT

By
Sakura Murakami

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama hugs atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori
as he visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan May 27, 2016.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria

A Japanese man who survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and was decades
later hugged by Barack Obama during the then U.S. President's visit to the city,
said he hoped Friday's Nobel Peace Prize would help put a focus on nuclear
disarmament.

Shigeaki Mori, who was eight years old when the bomb flattened Hiroshima, was
embraced by Obama during his visit to the atomic bomb memorial site in 2016, a
moment that became a defining image of that visit.

When contacted by Reuters and asked if he thought the Nobel Prize would bring
greater awareness to the issue of denuclearisation, the octogenarian Mori simply
replied: "Yes".

He said he was being inundated by calls for interview requests and did not
comment further.

"I just don't want all of this to end up being a dream," Mori told Reuters in an
interview last year, referring to his hopes for disarmament.

As an adult, he began a multi-decade quest to find how many victims were
cremated at his school playground.




'NUCLEAR WAR COULD MEAN THE END OF HUMANITY' - NOBEL COMMITTEE CHAIR TO REUTERS

17 hours ago
04:35 PDT

By

Gwladys Fouché and Tom Little

Smoke billows over Nagasaki, Japan, after the atomic bomb was dropped on the
city in this August 9, 1945 file photo.

Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the dropping of nuclear bombs by the
United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.

With the award, the committee was drawing attention to a "very dangerous
situation" in the world, with China-U.S. relations, and Russia-U.S. relations,
"the most toxic" since the end of the Cold War, according to Dan Smith, head of
the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

"If there is a military conflict, there is a risk of it escalating to nuclear
weapons ... They (Nihon Hidankyo) are really an important voice to remind us
about the destructive nature of nuclear weapons," he told Reuters.

Smith also said the Committee has achieved "a triple strike" with the prize:
drawing attention to the human suffering of nuclear bomb survivors; the danger
of nuclear weapons.



The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Joergen Watne Frydnes, Norway October
11, 2024. NTB/Javad Parsa/via REUTERS

Joergen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, warned that
nuclear nations should not contemplate using atomic weapons.

"In a world ridden (with) conflicts, where nuclear weapons is definitely part of
it, we wanted to highlight the importance of strengthening the nuclear taboo,
the international norm, against the use of nuclear weapons," Frydnes told
Reuters.

"We see it as very alarming that the nuclear taboo ... is being reduced by
threatening, but also how the situation in the world where the nuclear powers
are modernizing and upgrading their arsenals."

Frydnes said the world should listen to the "painful and dramatic stories of the
Hibakusha."

"These weapons should never be used again anywhere in the world ... Nuclear war
could mean the end of humanity, (the) end of our civilisation," he said in an
interview.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned the West of potential
nuclear consequences since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

He declared last month that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck
with conventional missiles, and that Moscow would consider any assault on it
supported by a nuclear power to be a joint attack.

This month, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would speed up
steps towards becoming a military superpower with nuclear weapons and would not
rule out using them if it came under enemy attack. The widening conflict in the
Middle East has also prompted some experts to speculate that Iran may
restart its efforts to acquire a nuclear bomb.


Video


HERE IS THE MOMENT THE PEACE PRIZE WAS ANNOUNCED

17 hours ago
04:05 PDT








HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL, THEN AND NOW

17 hours ago
03:58 PDT

By

Hani Richter and Kylie MacLellan

FILE PHOTO: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, August 6,
2024, Kyodo/via REUTERS

The shadow of the bomb still looms large in modern-day Hiroshima.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial, also known as the Genbaku Dome or the Atomic Bomb
Dome, preserves one of the only structures left standing in Hiroshima after the
world's first nuclear attack 79 years ago.

The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall was designed by a Czech
architect about 30 years before the bomb fell and is now a World Heritage Site.



August 6, 1945. REUTERS/Toshio Kawamoto/Yoshio Kawamto

See our photo gallery from the 70th anniversary of the bombing here.




REACTIONS TO NIHON HIDANKYO WINNING NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

18 hours ago
03:07 PDT

By

Gwladys Fouché and Chang-Ran Kim

NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE

"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."

NIHON HIDANKYO CO-CHAIR TOSHIYUKI MIMAKI

"(The win) will be a great force to appeal to the world that the abolition of
nuclear weapons and everlasting peace can be achieved," he told a news
conference in Hiroshima, site of the Aug. 6, 1945 atomic bombing during World
War Two.

"Nuclear weapons should absolutely be abolished."

JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER SHIGERU ISHIBA

"It's extremely meaningful that the organisation that has worked toward
abolishing nuclear weapons received the Nobel Peace Prize," the prime minister
told a press conference in Laos.

PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO

"Nihon Hidankyo's work reminds us of the devastating human cost of nuclear
weapons, a message we cannot ignore. In an era where automated weapon systems
and AI-driven warfare are emerging, their call for disarmament is not just
historical — it is a critical message for our future."

RAVINA SHAMDASANI, U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE SPOKESPERSON

“It's recognition of the importance of grassroots organizations, and in
particular survivors of horrific violations for their tireless and persistent
work, often away from the spotlight without much recognition... but for them to
keep going in spite of the horrors they themselves experienced, to try to make
the world a better place for all of us.”




'A CRITICAL MESSAGE FOR OUR FUTURE' - THE PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO

18 hours ago
02:59 PDT





OBAMA MET SURVIVORS DURING HIS HISTORIC 2016 VISIT TO HIROSHIMA

19 hours ago
02:54 PDT


FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Barack Obama hugs atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori
as he visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan May 27, 2016.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Barack Obama became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, in
2016.

The moment of atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori being embraced by Obama at the
bomb site became the defining image of the visit. Obama avoided any direct
expression of remorse or apology for the bombings, something many Japanese feel
is overdue.

Mori was eight years old when the bomb hit on the morning of August 6, 1945, was
knocked unconscious by the blast. When he came to, he saw a crouched woman
holding her own entrails asking for the nearest hospital.

Thirty years later he began a multi-decade quest to find how many victims were
cremated at his school playground.

His work also unearthed the identities of 12 Americans who died in the bombing.


Reaction


JAPAN'S PM ISHIBA SAID THE WIN WAS 'EXTREMELY MEANINGFUL'

19 hours ago
02:51 PDT

By
Satoshi Sugiyama

"It's extremely meaningful that the organisation that has worked toward
abolishing nuclear weapons received Nobel Peace Prize," Japanese Prime Minister
Shigeru Ishiba said during a press conference in Laos.  




EXPLORE PAST NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

19 hours ago
02:50 PDT

By
Matthew Weber, Global Editor Graphics

Reuters
Nobel Laureates
every Nobel laureate by country, prize and academic affiliation
Read the article on  https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com



A WARNING FROM THE NOBEL COMMITTEE

19 hours ago
02:49 PDT

By

Nora Buli and Gwladys Fouché, Oslo Bureau Chief

FILE PHOTO: A representative of atomic energy commission holds a Geiger counter
as he measures atom radiation at the French nuclear tests' site in In-Ekker,
near Ain Meguel, about 170 km (106 miles) from the southern Algerian town of
Tamanrasset, February 25, 2010. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra 

Without naming specific countries, Joergen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian
Nobel Committee, warned that nuclear nations should not contemplate using
nuclear weapons.

"Today's nuclear weapons have far greater destructive power. They can kill
millions and would impact the climate catastrophically," he told a press
conference. "A nuclear war could destroy our civilisation."

Frydnes praised "the extraordinary efforts" of Nihon Hidankyo and other
representatives of the Hibakusha to contribute to "the establishment of the
nuclear taboo".

"It is therefore alarming that today this taboo against the use of nuclear
weapons is under pressure," he said.

Next year will mark the 80th anniversary of the dropping of nuclear bombs by the
United States on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.




THE NOBEL COMMITTEE'S CITATION

19 hours ago
02:43 PDT

By
Stephen Farrell




THE HIROSHIMA EXPLOSION FROM THE AIR

19 hours ago
02:29 PDT


FILE PHOTO: Smoke billows 20,000 feet above Hiroshima following the explosion of
the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare in this U.S. Air Force handout photo
dated August 6, 1945. Two planes of the 509th Composite Group, part of the 313th
Wing of the 20th Air Force, participated in this mission; one to carry the bomb,
and the other to act as escort. REUTERS/U.S. Air Force/Handout


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