Nihon Hidankyo awarded Nobel Peace Prize: Chugoku Shimbun provides photos serving as origin of anti-nuclear movement to exhibit commemorating award
Nov. 28, 2024
by Fumiyasu Miyano, Staff Writer
The Chugoku Shimbun has provided the digital data of two photographs that capture the tragedy facing citizens on the day of the Hiroshima atomic bombing to an exhibition that will begin next month at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. The photo data were sent to the Peace Center in conjunction with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo). The photos were taken by Yoshito Matsushige, a former staff photographer at the Chugoku Shimbun who died in 2005 at the age of 92. They communicate the origins of the A-bomb survivors’ movement dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons.
One of the photos depicts men and women crouching at the west end of Miyuki Bridge (in Hiroshima’s present-day Naka Ward) along with female students undergoing first-aid treatment nearby. The other depicts a police officer with a cloth bandage wrapped around his forehead writing A-bomb victim’s certificates in front of the Hiroshima District Monopoly Bureau (in the city’s present-day Minami Ward). The Peace Center selected the two photos from among five taken by Mr. Matsushige on August 6, 1945.
The exhibition will begin on December 11, the day after the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, and is scheduled to continue until November 2025.
(Originally published on November 28, 2024)
The Chugoku Shimbun has provided the digital data of two photographs that capture the tragedy facing citizens on the day of the Hiroshima atomic bombing to an exhibition that will begin next month at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. The photo data were sent to the Peace Center in conjunction with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo). The photos were taken by Yoshito Matsushige, a former staff photographer at the Chugoku Shimbun who died in 2005 at the age of 92. They communicate the origins of the A-bomb survivors’ movement dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons.
One of the photos depicts men and women crouching at the west end of Miyuki Bridge (in Hiroshima’s present-day Naka Ward) along with female students undergoing first-aid treatment nearby. The other depicts a police officer with a cloth bandage wrapped around his forehead writing A-bomb victim’s certificates in front of the Hiroshima District Monopoly Bureau (in the city’s present-day Minami Ward). The Peace Center selected the two photos from among five taken by Mr. Matsushige on August 6, 1945.
The exhibition will begin on December 11, the day after the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, and is scheduled to continue until November 2025.
(Originally published on November 28, 2024)
