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Nobel Peace Prize event in Oslo

OSLO, Norway, Dec. 12 Kyodo - Jiro Hamasumi (far L), who was exposed to radiation while in his mother's womb when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and a deputy secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading atomic bomb survivors group, speaks during an event to share his experience at Kuben high school in Oslo on Dec. 11, 2024, a day after the group received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Kyodo)

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Terumi Tanaka of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations meets the press in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the 82-year-old head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks at a press conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the 82-year-old head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, reacts in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the 82-year-old head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, celebrates in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the 82-year-old head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, reacts in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the 82-year-old head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, smiles at a press conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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79th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Toshiyuki Mimaki, the head of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks in a meeting between atomic bomb survivor groups and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2024, the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

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Japan court ruling on unrecognized Minamata victims

Unrecognized sufferers of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease march to the Niigata District Court in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on April 18, 2024. The court later in the day recognized 26 plaintiffs as eligible for compensation by the company responsible but did not award them relief payments from the state.(Kyodo)

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Japan court ruling on unrecognized Minamata victims

Unrecognized sufferers of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease and their lawyers meet the media outside the Niigata District Court in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on April 18, 2024, after it recognized 26 plaintiffs as eligible for compensation by the company responsible but did not award them relief payments from the state.

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Japan court ruling on unrecognized Minamata victims

Unrecognized sufferers of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease march to the Niigata District Court in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on April 18, 2024. The court later in the day recognized 26 plaintiffs as eligible for compensation by the company responsible but did not award them relief payments from the state.

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Japan court ruling on unrecognized Minamata victims

Unrecognized sufferers of the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease march to the Niigata District Court in Niigata, northwest of Tokyo, on April 18, 2024. The court later in the day recognized 26 plaintiffs as eligible for compensation by the company responsible but did not award them relief payments from the state.

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The Burden Of Leprosy In Indonesia

Leper'sr are seenr inside the Sicanang Special Hospital for leprosy sufferers in Medan, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia on July 03, 2012. The World Health Organization has chosen "Beat Leprosy" as the theme for World Leprosy Day 2024. The goal is to eradicate the stigma associated with leprosy and promote the dignity of people affected by the disease. The commemoration aims to serve as a reminder of the need to address the social and psychological aspects of leprosy and the medical efforts to eliminate the disease. This call to action encourages the world to understand that leprosy is no longer a source of stigma, but rather an opportunity to demonstrate compassion and respect for all individuals. Photo by Aditya Sutanta/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Burden Of Leprosy In Indonesia

A leper is seen in a wheelchair inside the Sicanang Special Hospital for leprosy sufferers in Medan, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia on July 03, 2012. The World Health Organization has chosen "Beat Leprosy" as the theme for World Leprosy Day 2024. The goal is to eradicate the stigma associated with leprosy and promote the dignity of people affected by the disease. The commemoration aims to serve as a reminder of the need to address the social and psychological aspects of leprosy and the medical efforts to eliminate the disease. This call to action encourages the world to understand that leprosy is no longer a source of stigma, but rather an opportunity to demonstrate compassion and respect for all individuals. Photo by Aditya Sutanta/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Burden Of Leprosy In Indonesia

A leper is seenr inside the Sicanang Special Hospital for leprosy sufferers in Medan, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia on July 03, 2012. The World Health Organization has chosen "Beat Leprosy" as the theme for World Leprosy Day 2024. The goal is to eradicate the stigma associated with leprosy and promote the dignity of people affected by the disease. The commemoration aims to serve as a reminder of the need to address the social and psychological aspects of leprosy and the medical efforts to eliminate the disease. This call to action encourages the world to understand that leprosy is no longer a source of stigma, but rather an opportunity to demonstrate compassion and respect for all individuals. Photo by Aditya Sutanta/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Burden Of Leprosy In Indonesia

A leper is seen in a wheelchair inside the Sicanang Special Hospital for leprosy sufferers in Medan, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia on July 03, 2012. The World Health Organization has chosen "Beat Leprosy" as the theme for World Leprosy Day 2024. The goal is to eradicate the stigma associated with leprosy and promote the dignity of people affected by the disease. The commemoration aims to serve as a reminder of the need to address the social and psychological aspects of leprosy and the medical efforts to eliminate the disease. This call to action encourages the world to understand that leprosy is no longer a source of stigma, but rather an opportunity to demonstrate compassion and respect for all individuals. Photo by Aditya Sutanta/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Int'l confab on humanitarian impact of nuclear arms

VIENNA, Austria - Terumi Tanaka, secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, speaks at the third Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Dec. 9, 2014.

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Victims, Mitsui settle fight over cadmium pollution

TOYAMA, Japan - Kunihiro Takagi (R), leader of a sufferers' group, and Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. President Sadao Senda shake hands, holding documents of agreement, in Toyama, Japan, on Dec. 17, 2013. The compensation issue over one of Japan's four major pollution-caused disease cases reached a complete settlement, as sufferers of cadmium poisoning, known as "Itai-Itai Disease," and the company responsible signed an agreement on it.

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First settlement reached in hepatitis damages suits against state

FUKUOKA, Japan - A total of 29 hepatitis C sufferers suing the state and drugmakers for damages settled suits with the state in Osaka and Fukuoka on Feb. 4, the first such settlement among a series of similar lawsuits filed by about 240 people nationwide since 2002. Photo shows plaintiffs smiling during a news conference the same day after the settlement of their suit at the Fukuoka High Court.

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A-bomb survivors' group marks 60th anniversary of founding

HIROSHIMA, May 29 Kyodo - Sunao Tsuboi, a 91-year-old Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, speaks in a meeting in Hiroshima on May 29, 2016, to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, known as Hidankyo. Tsuboi was invited to a ceremony in the western Japan city two days earlier to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama.

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A-bomb survivor attends Vienna nuclear confab

VIENNA, Austria - Terumi Tanaka, an atomic bomb survivor and secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A and H Bomb Sufferers Organizations, attends the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons in Austria on Dec. 8, 2014. He expressed hope that the abolition of nuclear waepons will be realized soon.

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A-bomb survivor hopes peace discussed more in election

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kazuo Okoshi, secretary general of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations (headed by Kazushi Kaneko), speaks at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, on Dec. 3, 2014, of the importance of discussing the issues of peace and the Constitution during the current campaign for the lower house election on Dec. 14.

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Figure skater Asada keen to help 2011 quake sufferers

TOKYO, Japan - Popular figure skater Mao Asada expresses her willingness as head of a youth social action group to help assist people affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2014.

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Emperor, Empress visit sanatorium for leprosy sufferers

TOME, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko offer flowers at the charnel house of a national sanatorium for leprosy sufferers in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 22, 2014.

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Protest against enhanced role for Japan's armed forces

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Sunao Tsuboi, director of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organization, criticizes the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a protest in Hiroshima, Japan, on July 1, 2014, after the Cabinet approved reinterpreting the Constitution to allow the Self-Defense Forces to defend allies under armed attack in collective self-defense. The decision marked a departure from Japan's postwar security policy despite criticism that its pacifist credo would be in danger.

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Bull given to quake sufferers joins bullfight in Japan

NIIGATA, Japan - A bull (L) presented to sufferers of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster fights another bull in a tournament held as part of the "National Bullfight Summit" in Nagaoka, northeastern Japan, on June 8, 2014.

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Federation of A-bomb suffers' groups holds general assembly

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations holds a regular general assembly at a Tokyo hotel on June 4, 2014.

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Japanese A-bomb survivors to meet South Korean sufferers

NAGASAKI, Japan - Katsuhiko Ota, a member of an association promoting exchanges between Japanese and Korean survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, speaks to reporters on March 13, 2014, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, ahead of a visit to Seoul later in the month for a meeting with South Korean A-bomb sufferers.

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Ruling on Korean A-bombing sufferers

OSAKA, Japan - Lawyers and supporters for South Korean atomic bomb sufferers who have been receiving treatment in South Korea enter the Osaka District Court in western Japan on Oct. 24, 2013. The court the same day revoked the 2011 Osaka prefectural government's decision not to cover the medical costs of the sufferers.

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Abe angers Minamata disease sufferers

MINAMATA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (on screen) speaks in a video message sent to an international environmental conference in the southwestern Japan city of Minamata in Kumamoto Prefecture on Oct. 9, 2013. Abe's remarks that Japan has overcome the damage from mercury poisoning in the 1950s and 1960s angered some of those still suffering from the Minamata mercury-poisoning disease.

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Poet To dies at 83

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in April 2003 shows Kazuko To, a prize-winning poet and former leprosy sufferer, who died of acute respiratory failure at a sanatorium in Kagawa Prefecture on Aug. 28, 2013, at age 83. To, who developed leprosy in 1942, was isolated at the sanatorium even from family members and friends at the age of 14. She engaged in poetry writing from her late 20s and her poems written amid discrimination against leprosy sufferers were highly acclaimed.

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Health check for Minamata disease ahead of relief deadline

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - A man (L) receives a health checkup in Izumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, on June 24, 2012, in the largest-ever screening for potential Minamata disease sufferers in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures ahead of the end-of-July deadline for applying for state redress.

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Health check for Minamata disease ahead of relief deadline

KUMAMOTO, Japan - People visit a hospital to receive a health checkup in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, on June 24, 2012, in the largest-ever screening for potential Minamata disease sufferers in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures ahead of the end-of-July deadline for applying for state redress.

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Health check for Minamata disease ahead of relief deadline

KUMAMOTO, Japan - A doctor examines a man in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, on June 24, 2012, in the largest-ever screening for potential Minamata disease sufferers in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures ahead of the end-of-July deadline for applying for state redress.

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Minamata marks 56th anniv. of disease recognition

MINAMATA, Japan - Environment Minister Goshi Hosono (L) speaks to Minamata disease sufferers in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, on May 1, 2012, prior to a memorial ceremony for the 56th anniversary of official recognition of the mercury-poisoning disease. To the right is Kumamoto Gov. Ikuo Kabashima.

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Environment Minister Hosono in Minamata

MINAMATA, Japan - Environment Minister Goshi Hosono (back R) speaks during a meeting with sufferers of Minamata mercury poisoning disease in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Jan. 29, 2012. He apologized for the time it is taking the government to resolve the issue of providing relief measures to uncertified sufferers of the disease caused by the release of tainted water into the sea decades ago.

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Environment Minister Hosono in Minamata

MINAMATA, Japan - Environment Minister Goshi Hosono bows during a meeting with sufferers of Minamata mercury poisoning disease in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Jan. 29, 2012, apologizing for the time it is taking the government to resolve the issue of providing relief measures to uncertified sufferers of the disease caused by the release of tainted water into the sea decades ago.

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Chinese rights advocate Hu Jia

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hu Jia, a Chinese human rights advocate who has helped AIDS sufferers in China. Hu returned home after he was imprisoned for subversion, his wife Zeng Jinyan said on June 26, 2011.

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Unrecognized Minamata disease sufferers settle damages suit

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Representatives of plaintiffs and others raise banners to celebrate a settlement of a damages suit filed by Minamata disease sufferers in front of the Kumamoto District Court in southwestern Japan on March 25, 2011. A group of unrecognized Minamata disease sufferers reached an out-of-court settlement the same day with Chisso Corp., the chemical maker responsible for causing the mercury-poisoning disease.

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Hepatitis B sufferers to accept court proposal

TOKYO, Japan - Mieko Taniguchi, the leader of plaintiffs suffering from hepatitis B, speaks at a meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2011. The plaintiffs decided the same day to accept a court-proposed settlement plan for lawsuits against the government on condition that the state offers an apology and blanket compensation.

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Dalai Lama in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The Dalai Lama (C, L), the Tibetan spiritual leader, speaks to Sunao Tsuboi (C, R), an atomic-bomb survivor, at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Nov. 15, 2010. Tsuboi is a co-leader of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations which received the special award by the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.

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U.S. subcritical nuclear test draws protests in Japan

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Protesters, including members of the Hiroshima Council of A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, stage a sit-in at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Oct. 13, 2010, in protest of a recent U.S. subcritical nuclear test.

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) shakes hands with Sumiteru Taniguchi, 81, head of the Nagasaki A-bomb Sufferers' Council at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. The photo at upper right shows the burns Taniguchi received on his back in the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time.

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) shakes hands with Sumiteru Taniguchi, 81, head of the Nagasaki A-bomb Sufferers' Council at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 5, 2010. The photo at upper right shows the burns Taniguchi received on his back in the 1945 U.S. nuclear attack. Ban visited the atom-bombed city for the first time.

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Hepatitis B sufferers, gov't seek settlement of lawsuits

SAPPORO, Japan - Hepatitis B sufferers enter the Sapporo District Court in Hokkaido on May 14, 2010, for a hearing of a lawsuit demanding the state compensate them for failing to take steps to avert the risks posed by shared needles during mass vaccinations. The government formally announced that day it will enter into talks to settle a string of such lawsuits.

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Hepatitis B sufferers, gov't seek settlement of lawsuits

SAPPORO, Japan - Hepatitis B sufferers enter the Sapporo District Court in Hokkaido on May 14, 2010, for a hearing of a lawsuit demanding the state compensate them for failing to take steps to avert the risks posed by shared needles during mass vaccinations. The government formally announced that day it will enter into talks to settle a string of such lawsuits.

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Minamata disease suit settled as mediation plan approved

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Unrecognized sufferers of Minamata mercury poisoning disease celebrate in front of the Kumamoto District Court in Kumamoto on March 29, 2010, after they agreed with the state, Kumamoto Prefecture and chemical maker Chisso Corp. to settle a damages suit in principle under a court-brokered plan that includes lump-sum payments of 2.1 million yen per person.

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Minamata disease suit settled as mediation plan approved

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Toshio Oishi, the representative of unrecognized sufferers of Minamata mercury poisoning disease, speaks at a news conference in Kumamoto on March 29, 2010, after the sufferers agreed with the state, Kumamoto Prefecture and chemical maker Chisso Corp. to settle a damages suit in principle under a plan brokered by the Kumamoto District Court that includes lump-sum payments of 2.1 million yen per person.

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Gov't to accept settlement for Minamata disease suit: Hatoyama

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Sakihito Ozawa speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on March 18, 2010, after talks with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Later, Hatoyama told reporters that he has decided to accept a court-brokered settlement plan for a damages suit filed by unrecognized sufferers of Minamata mercury poisoning disease.

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Bill to set up fund for A-bomb sufferers enacted

TOKYO, Japan - A plenary session of the House of Representatives approves a bill to establish a fund for atomic bomb sufferers in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2009, although the members of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party abstained from voting. The bill will establish a 300 million yen fund to compensate people who are suffering from radiation-linked illnesses due to the 1945 atomic bombings and have lost compensation lawsuits against the state.