The heads of atomic bomb survivor groups in Hiroshima and Nagasaki have expressed hope that newly elected Pope Leo XIV will promote nuclear abolition as his predecessor, Francis, did. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/09/japan/society/hibakusha-hope-new-pope/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #popeleo #us #atomicbombings #hiroshima #nagasaki #wwii #hibakusha #nuclearweapons
A ceremony was held on Monday to mark the 67th anniversary of the Children's Peace Monument being unveiled at the Peace Memorial Park in the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/06/japan/hiroshima-monument-anniversary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #wwii #hibakusha
With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki, the welfare ministry has begun collecting testimonies from the roughly 106,000 #hibakusha survivors of the attacks. #Nuclearbomb #Antinukes #Japan
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/28/japan/japan-to-collect-hibakusha-testimonies/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky#Echobox=1745828485-1
Nihon Hidankyo held a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday to report on its reception of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize at the award ceremony in Norway in December. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/02/japan/society/hidankyo-reports-nobel-prize-ceremony/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha
Nihon Hidankyo has expressed disappointment over being denied the opportunity to discuss Japan’s participation in a U.N. conference on banning nuclear weapons during a meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/08/japan/politics/ishiba-hidankyo-meeting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki #shigeruishiba
Members of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of hibakusha, made a visit to a cenotaph for deceased victims in Hiroshima to mark its receipt of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/18/japan/nihon-hidankyo-hiroshima-visit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #hiroshima
The Hiroshima High Court has turned down second-generation hibakusha's appeal for state compensation, upholding a ruling by the Hiroshima District Court. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/13/japan/crime-legal/second-generation-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hiroshima #hibakusha #japanesecourts #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #discrimination
Hibakusha from the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, have visited a high school in Oslo to share their experiences with students. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/12/japan/hibakusha-experiences-students/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #students #hibakusha #nihonhidankyo #norway
#日本被団協 #ノーベル平和賞 オスロ
での行事の最終日。朝はライブ配信、午前はオスロ大学の講堂でフォーラム、続いて中学生のインタビュー、午後はノルウェー放送協会でのライブショー(現在スタジオで開始待ち)
#NihonHidankyo #NobelPeacePrize #hibakusha
#japan #norway : #nuclearweapons / #nuclearweaponsban / #hibakusha / #nobelpeaceprice / #documentation
„Tanaka Terumi, a representative member of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, has spoken at an award ceremony in Oslo, Norway. (…)
Tanaka said he wants people around the world to discuss how the abolition of nuclear weapons can be achieved.
Here is the full text of Tanaka's speech.“
This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be presented Tuesday to Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, which lobbies against the weapons now resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/nobel-peace-prize-ceremony-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki #vladimirputin #russia #russiaukrainewar
Decades of work by now-deceased hibakusha atomic bomb survivors led to Nihon Hidankyo, a group of hibakusha, winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/japan-hibakusha-activities-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #atomicbombings #nagasaki #hiroshima #nihonhidankyo #hibakusha
Nagasaki native Kosuzu Harada has spent over a decade sharing the harrowing atomic bomb experiences of her late grandfather, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, one of the few individuals officially recognized as having survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/double-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #hibakusha #nagasaki #hiroshima #nobelprize #awards
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not truly understand the destructive power of nuclear weapons, a 92-year-old survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki said on the eve of his Japanese survivors' group receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/nihon-hidankyo-putin-nukes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki #vladimirputin #russia #russiaukrainewar
Those exposed while in the womb or during early childhood to radiation from the atomic bombs dropped during World War II said they are determined to demand at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony Tuesday that nuclear weapons be abolished. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/09/japan/womb-radiation-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #hibakusha
A delegation from Nihon Hidankyo, an atomic bomb survivors group based in Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, have arrived in Oslo to attend the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/09/japan/hidankyo-oslo-arrival/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #nobelprize #awards #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #terumitanaka #norway #hibakusha #nobelpeaceprize
#japan #norway : #nobelprice / #atomicweapons / #protest / #hibakusha /
„Tanaka Terumi, who experienced atomic bombing in Nagasaki when he was 13 years old, is to deliver a speech at the ceremony in Oslo (…).
He plans to convey to the world the consequences of the atomic bombing & the inhumane nature of nuclear weapons based on his own experiences, which included losing 5 relatives.
Tanaka said support from around the world will be needed to continue the campaign (…).“
ブラジルの #被爆者 の渡辺淳子さんと被爆者2世の丹治知佐子さんも無事にオスロ空港に到着しました！長旅お疲れ様でした！#日本被団協 #ノーベル平和賞 #NihonHidankyo #NobelPeacePrize #hibakusha
https://nuclearabolitionjpn.com/archives/8005
The U.N. General Assembly adopted by a majority vote a Japan-led resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons, with support from 152 countries including the United States and Britain, at its plenary meeting. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/03/japan/un-nuclear-weapons-abolition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #un #nobelprize #space #nihonhidankyo #hibakusha
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