On the 22nd, two years after the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into effect, groups of atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima Prefecture held a signature campaign to demand that Japan ratify the treaty.
On the 22nd, at Peace Park in Hiroshima City, about 10 hibakusha held a banner reading, "The Japanese government should join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons." We collected 56 signatures in about 30 minutes.
From January 22, the year before the treaty came into force, to the end of last year, seven atomic bomb survivor groups in the prefecture collected 546,597 signatures and delivered them to the Japanese government. I am planning to do a signature campaign.
On the 22nd, two years have passed since the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which prohibits the development, possession, and use of nuclear weapons, came into force. , Russia, China, and other nuclear-weapon states, as well as Japan, which is under the US nuclear umbrella, are not parties to the treaty.
Tomoyuki Minomaki, chairman of Hiroshima Prefectural Hidankyo, said, "Nuclear-weapon states did not participate in the treaty, and it was a frustrating two years. I would like to strongly appeal to Japan to be positive about signing and ratifying the treaty."
Kunihiko Sakuma, the president of another prefectural Hidankyo, said, "Two years ago, I thought that nuclear weapons abolition would progress, but as Russia suggested to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, it is not progressing easily. I want to continue exercising, believing that it will come true if we combine it."