Norwegian historian Geir Lundestad, who served as director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute for a quarter of a century until 2014, recalled the selection process for the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize in his ...

OSLO—The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony gave both Norwegian and Japanese citizens an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of making “orizuru” folded-paper cranes, a symbol of prayers for peace in Japan.

A Nobel Prize-winning group of Japanese atomic bomb survivors has held a ceremony marking its 70th anniversary. Some 140 ...

The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, aims to build momentum for the abolition of nuclear weapons by carrying forward the significance of it receiving ...

Japanese atomic bomb survivor organization Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of the organization's efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. The Norwegian ...