Nihon Hidankyo

The organisation

A collective voice

Nihon Hidankyo is the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations. It was formed by groups of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and victims of nuclear-weapons tests. It advocates both for survivors’ welfare and for a world in which nobody experiences such a catastrophe again.

The contribution

Its members turn lived experience into public testimony, education and advocacy. Their accounts make the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons concrete and have helped sustain international resistance to their use.

The idea in plain language

A nuclear weapon is often discussed in the language of strategy and deterrence. The hibakusha—survivors of the atomic bombings—describe what its use means for human lives, families and communities.