74 years since the atomic bombing 4:30 on August 9, Nagasaki
It is 74 years in 9 days since the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. As the international situation for the abolition of nuclear weapons becomes increasingly severe, Mayor Tagami of Nagasaki City is calling on the Japanese government to sign and ratify the Nuclear Weapons Convention in a peace declaration.
On the 9th, 74 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, a peace prayer ceremony will be held at the Peace Park in Nagasaki City from 10:40 am with the attendance of survivors and bereaved families and Prime Minister Abe.
At the ceremony, a list of 182601 atomic bomb victims, with 3402 names added in total, including the survivors who died in the past year, will be placed in the "House of Security".
And at 11:02 am, the time when the atomic bomb exploded, all the attendees silently mourned the victims.
In the Peace Declaration, Mayor Tagami, Nagasaki City, quoted the poems that the survivors were talking about the disaster of the atomic bomb for the first time, and appealed to the survivors' thought that they should never use the atomic bomb again.
While the international situation for the abolition of nuclear weapons has become increasingly severe, it calls on nuclear-owned states to fulfill their obligations for nuclear disarmament under the NPT = Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while the Japanese government was adopted by the United Nations in 2017. In addition to signing and ratifying the Nuclear Weapons Convention, we will call on the world as the only A-bombed country to call for peace and demand leadership.
The 9th will be the day when the hopes of Nagasaki as the last A-bomb site will be renewed in Japan and overseas, and the promises to the survivors of the A-bomb survivors and their commitment to peace will be renewed.