Nobel Peace Prize to Japanese Anti-Nuclear Association Nihon Hidankyo

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear organization Nihon Hidankyo .

The committee's chairman, Jurgen Watne Frydnes, described Nihon Hidankyo as "a popular movement of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , also known as Hibakusha" and said it received 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 situation in Gaza is "like Japan 80 years ago", the first words from the Japanese organization commenting on the recognition.

Nihon Hidankyo “never dreamed of winning” the prize, an official said.

(Online Union)