I have already referred to the two "Peace Declarations", read by the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on their Bomb Anniversaries, 6 August and 9 August, respectively. I would like to give here a little more extended excerpts of both.
Mayor of Hiroshima.
Some 'hibakusha'(radiation-affected people)have felt that 'they have enjoyed not a single day of their lives on this earth'. To some ladies their mothers-in-law had been kind, but when the latter came to know that they are hibakusha, they were immediately divorced. The fear of radioactivity sometimes draws out the human ugliness and cruelties, and have given immense suffering to many hibakusha at the important epochs of their lives such as marriage, job placement, or pregnancy. Indeed the nuclear weapons are "an absolute evil".
We will endeavour, in cooperation with the 5,700 mayors who are members of the conference of peaceful cities, the UN, and the like-minded NGOs, to abolish the nuclear weapons by 2020. We will also try to realize the non-nuclearization of North Korea, and to found a Nuclear-Free Zone in Northeast Asia.
Right now our Government is going ahead with concluding a nuclear treaty with the Government of India. It may help build a close economic relation between the two countries. It may, however, create a block in the way of the abolition of nuclear weapons.
The hibakusha are getting older(78 years on the average). We request the Government to intensify the support to them, and also to extend the geographical concept of the 'black rain' area(radioactivity-containing black rain showered on a wide area immediately after the bomb-dropping).
Mayor of Nagasaki
When a draft statement on the non-human character of the nuclear weapons was proposed at the NPT-related committee, held at Geneva in April last, our Government refused to sign it, by saying that we could not agree to the words 'under any circumstances'. Thus we showed that we may agree to the use of the nuclear weapons under some circumstances. Our stand should be that no one in the world shall experience the suffering from the nuclear bomb again, and the above stand goes against it.
Similarly, the ongoing nuclear negotiations with India, who has become a nuclear power without signing the NPT, would justify the move by North Korea and others to withdraw from the NPT to become a nuclear power, and obstruct the move toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The Japanese Government should get back to the position befitting to the only country that suffered from the nuclear weapons, and take the initiative in an effort to create an Northeast Asian Nuclear-Free Zone.
President Obama and President Putin are requested to quicken the pace of decreasing the number of their nuclear warheads.
To the people of the younger generation! Have you heard the voice of the hibakusha? They are crying, 'No more Hiroshima, no more Nagasaki, no more war, no more hibakusha'. You are the last generation capable of hearing the voice of the hibakusha directly. Listen to it, and think, and discuss, if the nuclear weapons can be allowed to exist in this world, and in the future.
Mayor of Hiroshima.
Some 'hibakusha'(radiation-affected people)have felt that 'they have enjoyed not a single day of their lives on this earth'. To some ladies their mothers-in-law had been kind, but when the latter came to know that they are hibakusha, they were immediately divorced. The fear of radioactivity sometimes draws out the human ugliness and cruelties, and have given immense suffering to many hibakusha at the important epochs of their lives such as marriage, job placement, or pregnancy. Indeed the nuclear weapons are "an absolute evil".
We will endeavour, in cooperation with the 5,700 mayors who are members of the conference of peaceful cities, the UN, and the like-minded NGOs, to abolish the nuclear weapons by 2020. We will also try to realize the non-nuclearization of North Korea, and to found a Nuclear-Free Zone in Northeast Asia.
Right now our Government is going ahead with concluding a nuclear treaty with the Government of India. It may help build a close economic relation between the two countries. It may, however, create a block in the way of the abolition of nuclear weapons.
The hibakusha are getting older(78 years on the average). We request the Government to intensify the support to them, and also to extend the geographical concept of the 'black rain' area(radioactivity-containing black rain showered on a wide area immediately after the bomb-dropping).
Mayor of Nagasaki
When a draft statement on the non-human character of the nuclear weapons was proposed at the NPT-related committee, held at Geneva in April last, our Government refused to sign it, by saying that we could not agree to the words 'under any circumstances'. Thus we showed that we may agree to the use of the nuclear weapons under some circumstances. Our stand should be that no one in the world shall experience the suffering from the nuclear bomb again, and the above stand goes against it.
Similarly, the ongoing nuclear negotiations with India, who has become a nuclear power without signing the NPT, would justify the move by North Korea and others to withdraw from the NPT to become a nuclear power, and obstruct the move toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The Japanese Government should get back to the position befitting to the only country that suffered from the nuclear weapons, and take the initiative in an effort to create an Northeast Asian Nuclear-Free Zone.
President Obama and President Putin are requested to quicken the pace of decreasing the number of their nuclear warheads.
To the people of the younger generation! Have you heard the voice of the hibakusha? They are crying, 'No more Hiroshima, no more Nagasaki, no more war, no more hibakusha'. You are the last generation capable of hearing the voice of the hibakusha directly. Listen to it, and think, and discuss, if the nuclear weapons can be allowed to exist in this world, and in the future.
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