Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Japan Atomic Bomb Victims Association (Update)
This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese organization Genbaku Hibakusha Dantai Kyogikai (Hidankyo), a council of atomic bomb survivors' groups.
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On the 11th (local time), the Nobel Committee announced that Hidankyo, a civic group for atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, was selected as the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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According to Japan's NHK and other sources, Hidankyo is an organization that has campaigned for nuclear disarmament from the perspective of atomic bomb survivors. This is the first time in 50 years that Japan has received the Nobel Peace Prize since former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato in 1974.
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