Nobel Peace Prize winner is Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group Nihon Hidankyo

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group Nihon Hidankyo.

“This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.

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