Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize

Tomoyuki Mimaki, co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo, changes the numbers on a poster counting the days since the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty came into effect at his home in Yamagata district, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, in 2023 [File: Sakura Murakami/Reuters]

Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons”.

The group received the honour “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”, said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, awarding the prize on Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.