HIROSHIMA A sister park agreement between what many people might regard as two of the world’s least likely locations Pearl Harbor and the city of Hiroshima is again under the spotlight due to a remark by a city government official here.
Atomic bomb survivors and Japanese anti-nuclear activists slammed Russia over the failure of a U.N. nuclear disarmament review conference to adopt a joint declaration, and also decried the arrogance of four other nuclear powers.
VIENNA Japan cannot possibly hope to serve as a bridge between the nuclear powers and nonnuclear states if it chooses not to attend the first U.N. nuclear ban treaty meeting as an observer, the chief of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) said June 19.
Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was named a new co-chair of an atomic bomb survivors’ organization to succeed the late prominent anti-nuclear activist Sunao Tsuboi.
Sunao Tsuboi, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and played a leading role in informing a global audience about the experience of a hibakusha, died on Oct. 24. He was 96.