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Nihon Hidankyō, the Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to create a world free of nuclear weapons."
The group received the prize "for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again."
The award ceremony commemorates the upcoming 80th anniversary of the dropping of two atomic bombs by the United States of America on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, immediately killing an estimated 120,000 people.
The Nobel Prize Committee announced that it wanted to "honor all survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, use their terrible experiences to create hope and commitment to peace."
The fate of the survivors of the infernos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was kept secret and ignored for a long time.
In 1956, local hibakusha associations, together with victims of nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific, founded the Japanese Confederation of Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Victims' Organizations (日本原水爆被害者団体協議会, Nihon gensuibaku higaisha dantai kyōgi-kai). This name was later shortened to Nihon Hidankyō (日本被団協).