Nihon Hidankyo awarded Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to attain nuclear-free world

Nihon Hidankyo, an atomic bomb survivors group primarily based in Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to attain a world freed from nuclear weapons — the primary time in 50 years {that a} Japanese recipient has been awarded the prize.

Joergen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, mentioned it awarded the group with the glory for demonstrating by means of witness testimony that nuclear weapons mustn’t ever be used once more.

“The extraordinary efforts of Nihon Hidankyo and different representatives of the hibakusha have contributed drastically to the institution of the nuclear taboo,” mentioned Frydnes. “It is subsequently alarming that at the moment this taboo in opposition to using nuclear weapons is below strain.”