UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in Nagasaki City expressed his solidarity with the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings and said that he will send an antinuke message to the world jointly with Hibakusha.
Okinawa Governor Onaga Takeshi, a man who held firm to his conviction to resist the construction of a U.S. base in Henoko in Okinawa's Nago City, died of pancreatic cancer. He was the symbol of an "All Okinawa" bond.