Merely getting the word out about the horrors of nuclear war isn't enough to prevent it. Japan needs to be more realistic about how atomic armaments may help preserve peace. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/04/21/japan/japan-nuclear-deterrence-lack-of-debate/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #hiroshima #nagasaki #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #defense #us #tpnw
A multinational group of experts advocating a world without nuclear weapons has outlined several principles in its call for urgent action to prevent a nuclear war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/01/japan/nuclear-war-prevention/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #nagasaki
https://www.europesays.com/1959650/ Global experts seek urgent action to prevent nuclear war #ATOMICBOMBINGS #Nagasaki #nuclear #NuclearWeapons
Italian President Sergio Mattarella visited Hiroshima on Saturday where he laid flowers at the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Peace Memorial Park. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/09/japan/italian-hiroshima-peace-park/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sergiomattarella #hiroshima #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #wwii
A group of Japanese high school students called for the abolition of nuclear weapons Wednesday in New York, where a meeting of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is underway. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/06/japan/society/students-nuclear-abolition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #highschools #students #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #newyork #un #nihonhidankyo #indigenouspeople #nobelprize
A senior official of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Nihon Hidankyo urged the world to push for the abolition of nuclear weapons during a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/04/japan/hidankyo-meeting-urge-abolition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #wwii #us #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #nobelprize #hiroshima #nagasaki
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi has signaled that Japan is unlikely to attend future meetings of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/03/japan/politics/hayashi-negative-future-meetings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #yoshimasahayashi #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #us #nihonhidankyo #nobelprize
The annual number of visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which shows how the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing devastated the city of Hiroshima, has exceeded 2 million for the first time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/03/japan/hiroshima-museum-visitors/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #nihonhidankyo #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #wwii #nobelprize #museums
Over 80% of people in the United States do not know that the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, won last year's Nobel Peace Prize, a survey has shown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/16/japan/us-hidankyo-unawareness/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #us #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #nobelprize #awards #surveys
Nihon Hidankyo held a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday to report on its reception of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize at the award ceremony in Norway in December. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/02/japan/society/hidankyo-reports-nobel-prize-ceremony/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha
The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have requested that U.S. President Donald Trump visit the atomic-bombed cities this year, the 80th anniversary of the attacks and the end of World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/28/japan/politics/trump-hiroshima-nagasaki-mayors-invite/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #hiroshima #nagasaki #donaldtrump #us #atomicbombings #history #wwii #nuclearweapons
Nihon Hidankyo has expressed disappointment over being denied the opportunity to discuss Japan’s participation in a U.N. conference on banning nuclear weapons during a meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/08/japan/politics/ishiba-hidankyo-meeting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki #shigeruishiba
Members of Nihon Hidankyo, a group of hibakusha, made a visit to a cenotaph for deceased victims in Hiroshima to mark its receipt of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/18/japan/nihon-hidankyo-hiroshima-visit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #hiroshima
Nihon Hidankyo has raised ¥44.7 million from about 5,300 people in its crowdfunding campaign that ended Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/16/japan/nihon-hidankyo-crowdfunding/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nihonhidankyo #nobelprize #crowdsourcing #atomicbombings
The Hiroshima High Court has turned down second-generation hibakusha's appeal for state compensation, upholding a ruling by the Hiroshima District Court. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/13/japan/crime-legal/second-generation-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #hiroshima #hibakusha #japanesecourts #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #discrimination
Hibakusha from the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, have visited a high school in Oslo to share their experiences with students. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/12/japan/hibakusha-experiences-students/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #students #hibakusha #nihonhidankyo #norway
A forum on nuclear disarmament was held at the University of Oslo in Norway in honor of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group, Nihon Hidankyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/12/japan/hibakusha-at-nuke-disarmament-forum/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #nihonhidankyo #keikoogura #masaotomonaga
This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be presented Tuesday to Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, which lobbies against the weapons now resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/nobel-peace-prize-ceremony-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #awards #nihonhidankyo #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #hibakusha #defense #hiroshima #nagasaki #vladimirputin #russia #russiaukrainewar
Decades of work by now-deceased hibakusha atomic bomb survivors led to Nihon Hidankyo, a group of hibakusha, winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/japan-hibakusha-activities-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #atomicbombings #nagasaki #hiroshima #nihonhidankyo #hibakusha
Nagasaki native Kosuzu Harada has spent over a decade sharing the harrowing atomic bomb experiences of her late grandfather, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, one of the few individuals officially recognized as having survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/10/japan/double-hibakusha/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #nuclearweapons #hibakusha #nagasaki #hiroshima #nobelprize #awards
