92-year-old Terumi Tanaka survived the atomic bomb in Nagasaki when he was 13 years old.
We note with anger and great sorrow that, in addition to civilian suffering, we have ended up in a situation where the taboo surrounding nuclear weapons is on the way to being undermined, he says.
The Japanese organization advocates for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
After we ourselves had survived the inhumane injuries after the atomic bomb, we created our organization to ensure that such suffering would never be repeated, he says on stage at the peace prize ceremony.
Nihon Hidankyo receives the prize for its work towards a world without nuclear weapons and for using members' personal stories to clarify why nuclear weapons must never be used again.
The organization consists of survivors from the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
