{"id":13423,"date":"2024-10-24T12:35:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=13423"},"modified":"2024-10-24T12:35:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:35:47","slug":"hiroshima-survivors-win-the-nobel-peace-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2024\/10\/24\/hiroshima-survivors-win-the-nobel-peace-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima Survivors Win the Nobel Peace Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juliana Mori<\/strong><\/p>\n

Staff Writer<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/japantoshiyuki-mimaki-president-of-the-hiroshima-news-photo\/2178474351?adppopup=true\n

On October 11, the winners of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize were announced. In a broadcast room in Hiroshima, Japan, Nihon Hidankyo, also known as \u201c<\/span>hibakusha<\/span><\/i>,\u201d<\/span> was declared the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. According to <\/span>The Nobel Prize<\/span><\/a>, Nihon Hidankyo is a\u201cgrassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki,\u201d with the mission\u201cto achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.\u201d This is a group of eyewitnesses of the only two events of nuclear weaponry being used in a war. They used their own experiences with losing family members, being riddled with radiation sickness, and other injuries to rid the world of nuclear weaponry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the leader of the Nihon Hidankyo, spoke about what this award means to him as a survivor, the organization, and the world. As <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a> reports, with tears in his eyes he pleaded, \u201cPlease abolish nuclear weapons while we are alive\u2026that is the wish of 114,000 hibakusha.\u201d This mission to ban nuclear weapons has been a lifelong mission for him, and the thousands of others who have been affected by the atomic bombs during World War II. He wants to see the change within his lifetime to see the humanity of others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reuters<\/span><\/a> reports that the average age of Nihon Hidankyo members is 85.6 which causes \u201cconcern that younger Japanese and people outside the country are becoming less familiar with the terrible lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\u201d The world should see through the testimony of the survivors that there are consequences to the actions of nuclear weapons that have affected generations of those who have been impacted. Many of these survivors hold the sentiment that the United States should issue some form of apology for using atomic weaponry during World War II. They see that their lived experience should be a lesson for leaders around the world about the aftermath which would follow using such weapons in war.<\/span>BBC News<\/span><\/a> has interviewed some of these survivors about their lives.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are still states within the world that continue to attempt to modernize their nuclear weaponry. According to <\/span>CNN<\/span><\/a>, the 2024<\/span> annual assessment on the state of armaments made by the SIPRI has found that <\/span>\u201cthe nine nuclear-armed states \u2013 the US, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel \u2013 \u201ccontinued to modernize their nuclear arsenals and several deployed new nuclear-armed or nuclear-capable weapon systems in 2023.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Toshiyuki Mimaki and other survivors have addressed this continued mission to expand and update nuclear arsenals will lead to international nuclear war, especially with the conflict in the Gaza Strip and in Ukraine. After hearing the announcement, <\/span>The Japan Times<\/span><\/a> states that Mimaki proclaimed, \u201c<\/span>The people are wishing for peace. But politicians insist on waging war, saying, ‘We won’t stop until we win.’ I think this is true for Russia and Israel, and I always wonder whether the power of the United Nations couldn’t put a stop to it.\u201d He reflected on his experience as a 3-year-old when the bombs had dropped and wished to see a change. <\/span>The Associated Press News<\/span><\/a> reports the importance of this award being given to <\/span>Nihon Hidankyo during a time of international conflicts stating that \u201cthe taboo of using nuclear weapons\u201d is threatened in places like Ukraine, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Sudan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Image courtesy of Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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