Gensuikyo launches movement calling on Japanese government to declare Japan ‘nuclear weapon-free’

   On April 26, the Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) announced at a press conference in Tokyo that it has launched a movement to call on the Japanese government to make a declaration of a Nuclear Weapon-Free Japan both in the Diet and at the United Nations General Assembly.

   This movement is forcing the Japanese government to propose and advocate the total elimination of nuclear weapons, to declare its adherence to the Three Non-Nuclear Principles (not to manufacture, possess, or allow nuclear weapons to be brought in), to notify other governments in the world of this declaration, and to call on them to cooperate in this effort.

   Citing the danger of the proliferation of nuclear weapons as seen in North Korea’s nuclear weapons programs, Japan Gensuikyo Secretary General Taka Hiroshi stressed that today the total abolition of nuclear weapons is urgently required and that as the only atom-bombed country Japan should take the initiative.

   “By declaring a ‘Nuclear Weapon-Free Japan,’ Japan will break away from the vicious circle of confronting nuclear threats with nuclear weapons, thus enabling it to claim moral superiority and to win trust in its diplomacy,” said Taka.