Nihon Hidankyo: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (2024)
Date	1956 - present

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Terumi Tanaka at a media meeting

Sign outside the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo reads congratulations Nobel Peace Prize 2024, the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, with a gold origami crane and yellow balloons nearby.

Infographic explaining the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, including a map of Japan, details about the Little Boy bomb, casualty statistics, symptoms of radiation injury, and information on Hiroshima's rebuilding and peace memorials. Key figures show about 140,000 deaths by year's end, symptoms such as hair loss and internal bleeding, and the city's postwar transformation into a peace symbol.

Infographic detailing the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, during World War II. It includes a map of Japan highlighting Nagasaki, facts about the Fat Man bomb, casualty statistics showing about 70,000 dead by year's end, symptoms of radiation injury, and notes on the city's rebuilding and peace movement.

Ionizing radiation injury from atomic bomb

Shigemitsu Tanaka weeping

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