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Nihon Hidankyo is the Japanese organisation representing survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings.
The heads of the organisation, Terumi Tanaka, Shigemitsu Tanaka and Toshiyuki Mimaki, received their Nobel Peace Prize medals earlier this month.
The award was for the organisation‘s “efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” according to the official citation.
In his presentation, Terumi Tanaka described his impressions of seeing the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki and warned of the dangers of nuclear weapons.
“Please try to imagine: There are 4,000 nuclear warheads, ready to be launched immediately. This means that damage hundreds or thousands of times greater than that which happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki could happen right away,” Tanaka said.
Answer: the Japanese organisation representing survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings
