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bouncingball8 Commentary: Timely decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Japanese atomic bomb survivors

Updated:2024-10-16 02:35    Views:187

SHEFFIELD, England: The 2024 Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisation created by survivors of the two US atomic bombs that were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

The Norwegian Nobel committee recognised the organisation “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”.

Discussion of the bombings, which killed more than 100,000 Japanese people, was largely a taboo in the immediate post-war period. This was, in part, thanks to American press censorship in occupied Japan.

But, in 1954, an American nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean produced such extensive radioactive fallout that it affected a Japanese fishing boat, the Lucky Dragon, causing one death from radiation poisoning.

The Lucky Dragon incident prompted many of the atomic bomb survivorsbouncingball8, who are known as the hibakusha, to speak out about their experiences. And it was within this context that Nihon Hidankyo was created in 1956.

Terumi Tanaka, center, co-chairperson of Nihon Hidankyo speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Oct 12, 2024, a day after Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

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