To coincide with the 70th anniversary of the so-called Bikini Incident, in which the crew of the Japanese tuna fishing boat Daigo Fukuryu Maru and others were exposed to radiation during a hydrogen bomb test carried out by the United States in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, a symposium to discuss the world's nuclear damage will be held in Tokyo. It was held at
This event was held in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward by the Fund for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, a private organization that aims to eliminate the damage caused by nuclear weapons, and experts, atomic bomb survivors, and others presented their research results.
Among them, Professor Seiichiro Takemine of Meisei University, who continues to research damage in the Marshall Islands, gave a lecture saying, ``The damage caused by nuclear tests is not only the effects on the human body, but also the loss of land and the destruction of culture. There is also this aspect, and it cannot be understood simply by the word 'inhumanity.'
In a panel discussion that followed, Masao Tomonaga, a Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor and doctor, said that discussions about establishing an international fund to assist nuclear victims and restore the environment in the affected areas had become more important than nuclear weapons. Regarding the progress being made at the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, he said, ``Until now, support for nuclear victims has been considered on an individual basis, but in order to expand support to nuclear victims in each region, efforts must be made within a larger framework.'' "is necessary."
In addition, Keita Takagaki, a university student from Hiroshima who continues to interact with nuclear victims around the world, said, ``We need more discussion about how to care for people who have been robbed of their homeland due to nuclear damage.'' I did.