The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on 11 October 2024 to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo (日本被団協：日本原水爆被害者団体協議会, The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations). It is a nationwide organization of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, founded 11 years after the bombings in 1956.
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Japan's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize marks the first time in 50 years since former Prime Minister Eisaku Sato was awarded the Peace Prize in 1974, in recognition of his declaration of the Three Non-Nuclear Principles and Japan's signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Representative Committee Member Mr. Terumi Tanaka (92) and others at a press conference in Tokyo on 12 October 2024, Nihon Keizai Shinbun
According to the Norwegian Nobel committee, this grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize 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.
