A-bomb survivors and high school students gathered for the "warless gathering" 78 years after the Pacific War opening Nagasaki December 8, 12:19
It is 78 years in 8 days from the opening of the Pacific War. In Nagasaki City, A-bomb survivors and local high school students held a “non-war gathering” and appealed to build a peaceful society free of war and nuclear weapons.
The “War of War” is held every year on December 8th when the Pacific War began and August 15th when the end of the war.
On the 8th, about 30 people, including A-bomb survivors and local high school students, gathered in front of the monument that swears the abolition of nuclear weapons and the battle near Nagasaki City.
And after giving silence to the victims of the atomic bomb and war, I turned to flowers.
Afterwards, Shiro Uchiyama, a second-year high school student in Nagasaki City, who is working to deliver a signature to the United Nations to abolish nuclear weapons, visited Nagasaki by Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church last month. After touching on the message, “I think indifference will lead to the use of war and nuclear weapons. I will continue my activities with the slogan“ I am weak but not helpless ”. I wanted to do it. "
Mr. Shigemitsu Tanaka, chairman of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Victims Association, who participated in the meeting, said, “I want to appeal to the fact that Nagasaki will be the last bombed area and that it will never war again.”