Nihon Hidankyo Receives Nobel Peace Prize

[Mr. Terumi Tanaka, Co-Chair of Nihon Hidankyo, presents the Nobel lecture, at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2024. Photo credit: © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Jo Straube]

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

The very moving December 10 (UN Human Rights Day) ceremony, including several musical performances, was held in Oslo. It was attended by the Norwegian royal family, and numerous Hibakusha, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, by the United States, in August 1945. The presentation speech was delivered by the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes. The Nobel lecture by Nihon Hidankyo was presented by Mr. Terumi Tanaka (pictured), a Co-Chair of the organization founded in 1956. We join with anti-nuclear colleagues worldwide to thank and congratulate Nihon Hidankyo “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.”

Watch the video recording of the ceremony, here.