Who are Japan's Nobel Peace Prize winners Nihon Hidankyo? 

STOCKHOLM — 

Japanese enactment Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots question of atomic weaponry survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who are besides known arsenic Hibakusha, won the Nobel Peace Prize connected Friday.

Below are immoderate facts astir the inheritance and efforts of the movement.

Atomic bombing of Japan

In 1945 the United States dropped 2 atomic bombs connected Japan to bring an extremity to World War II and debar a hugely costly penetration of the Japanese location islands.

The 2 bombs killed an estimated 120,000 radical successful Hiroshima and Nagasaki, portion galore thousands much died of burns and radiation injuries successful the pursuing years. The 2 atomic bombs stay the lone atomic weapons utilized successful war.

Local associations

The fates of those who survived the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were agelong concealed and neglected, particularly successful the archetypal years aft the extremity of the war.

Local Hibakusha associations, on with victims of atomic weapons tests successful the Pacific, formed the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations successful 1956.

The organisation, whose sanction was shortened successful Japanese to Nihon Hidankyo, would go the largest and astir influential Hibakusha organisation successful Japan.

Witness accounts

Through the years, Nihon Hidankyo has provided thousands of witnesser accounts relating the acquisition of the atomic bombs. It has issued resolutions and nationalist appeals, and sent yearly delegations to bodies specified arsenic the United Nations and bid conferences to advocator atomic disarmament.

The question has helped thrust planetary absorption to atomic weapons done the unit of the survivors' testimonies portion besides creating acquisition campaigns and issuing stark warnings astir the dispersed and usage of atomic arms.

Future

With each passing year, the fig of survivors from the 2 atomic blasts successful Japan astir 80 years agone grows smaller.

But the grassroots question has played a portion creating a civilization of remembrance, allowing for caller generations of Japanese to transportation connected the work.

Source: The Norwegian Nobel Committee