JCP Kasai Akira, a former member of the House of Representatives, took part in a session on “universalization” of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the third meeting of TPNW states parties being held at the UN Headquarters in NYC.
This year’s International Women’s Day on March 8 marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the 40th anniversary of Japan’s ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
A rally to mourn the victims of the 1945 Tokyo Air Raids took place in front of the memorial monument in Sumida Park in Taito Ward and in front of the cenotaph near Ueno Park in the same ward, respectively, on March 10.
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