Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden (Weltexpress). Jorgen Watne Frydnes, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, presented three members of the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, which unites survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with a gold medal with the relief of the award’s founder, Alfred Nobel, and a diploma.
The prize was awarded to the group ‘for their efforts to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world and for testifying that nuclear weapons must never be used again’. 17 Japanese citizens who survived the atomic bombing of 1945 attended the ceremony in Norway.
Unlike other Nobel prizes, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, not Stockholm, in accordance with the last will of the famous Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel. In his will, the scientist also stipulated that the prize should be awarded by a five-member committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament.
