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"From now on, I hope that the next generation will find ways to build on our efforts and develop the movement even further." So said Terumi Tanaka, who represented the A-bomb "hibakusha" survivor ...
Taniguchi, who died in 2017 at age 88, was among the many hibakusha who carried a powerful message to the world. Taniguchi was 16 when he was exposed to the atomic bomb in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 ...
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 ...
Inspiring other hibakusha Fukuda Hakaru, a 90-year-old Nagasaki hibakusha, says hearing Oka speak inspired him to share his own story. He wrote her a letter, saying how much her courage had moved him.
With the ranks of hibakusha rapidly dwindling, a group of atomic bomb survivors' efforts to pass down their experiences and achieve a world free of nuclear weapons have earned them a Nobel Peace ...
It’s estimated there are 136,700 survivors left in Japan. Known as hibakusha, many were infants or unborn when the United States dropped the bombs in 1945. They heard stories of the time from ...
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Kathleen Sullivan is a director of Hibakusha Stories, a partner of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She has supported the facilitation of ...