According to the welfare ministry, the number of hibakusha with victim certificates stood at 99,130 as of the end of March, ...

A Nobel Peace Prize-winning nongovernmental organization launched an online memorial Tuesday for children who died in the U.S ...

The number of atomic bomb survivors living in Japan has fallen below 100,000. The number includes all certified as "hibakusha ...

A 10-year-old boy from Tokyo is among the people who are telling the stories of atomic bomb survivors in Japan.

The sketch is one of 13 so-called "A-bomb drawings" by A-bomb survivors, or hibakusha, which have been sent to Oslo, Norway, to be displayed at the Nobel Peace Center's exhibit "A Message to ...

The hibakusha's testimonies seemed to have a strong impact on them. 'Sick of peace education' Meanwhile, Mohaddese Shukhi, a third-year high school student who immigrated to Norway from Iran, ...

In some places, young volunteers are working with hibakusha to succeed their personal story telling when they are gone. The first U.S. atomic bombing killed 140,000 people in the city of Hiroshima.

Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

Now, with their average age at 85.6, the hibakusha are increasingly frustrated that their fear of a growing nuclear threat and push to eliminate nuclear weapons are not fully understood by younger ...

For many Japanese survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their relatives, Friday's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Japanese organization against nuclear weapons ...

The hibakusha were also a counternarrative to a Japan that was developing into a high-tech economic giant fueled, in some cases, by nuclear power. The 2011 earthquake and tsunami, ...

The number of survivors holding a health book stood at 99,130 as at March 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...