Hidankyo Calls for Nuclear-Free World on 70th Anniv.
Nagasaki, Aug. 10 (Jiji Press)--Officials of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, renewed their call for a world without nuclear weapons, on the 70th anniversary of its establishment Monday. At a press conference held near the hypocenter of the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945,...
Nagasaki, August 10 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, commonly known as Nihon Hidankyo, reiterated their demand for a nuclear-free world on the 70th anniversary of its founding, Monday. Co-chair Terumi Tanaka, 94, addressed a press conference near the epicenter of the atomic bomb that the United States dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Tanaka, who witnessed the group's establishment as a university student, recalled the vigor with which hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, across Japan launched the movement. He expressed the hibakusha's collective hope that the world should not possess nuclear weapons. Acknowledging that hibakusha will eventually be gone, Tanaka hoped that the responsibility of eliminating nuclear weapons from the planet would be taken up by future generations.
The press conference was attended by seven senior officials of the organization, including co-chair Shigemitsu Tanaka, 85.
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