Nobel Peace Prize goes to the anti-nuclear affiliation Nihon Hidankyo | EUROtoday

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The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo. The committee's chairman, Jurgen Watne Frydnes, described Nihon Hidankyo as “a popular movement of survivors of the atomic bomb of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha” and mentioned it receives the peace prize “for its efforts to bring about a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” he said.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has highlighted how nuclear powers are “modernizing and strengthening their arsenals” while “new international locations seem like getting ready to amass nuclear weapons and threats are being made to make use of nuclear weapons in ongoing wars. At this second in human historical past, it’s value reminding ourselves what nuclear weapons are: essentially the most damaging weapons the world has ever seen”, we read in the statement explaining the reasons for the recognition. In awarding this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee “needs to honor all survivors who, regardless of bodily struggling and painful recollections, selected to make use of their pricey expertise to domesticate hope and dedication for peace.”

The situation in Gaza is “like Japan 80 years in the past”, says the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Nihon Hidankyo “by no means dreamed of successful” the prize, an organization official said after the award was given.