Hiroshima Mayor, in English, Seeks Action toward Nuke-Free World

August 6, 2018

Hiroshima- Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui urged world leaders to do more to realize a world without nuclear weapons in a peace declaration he read out in English on Monday.

World leaders "must strive to make the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons a milestone along the path to a nuclear-weapon-free world," he said at a lecture and discussion event on the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city.

Matsui also requested the Japanese government to put into practice the pacifism of the country's constitution in the movement toward the entry into force of the U.N. treaty.

The event was held to share the stories of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors. A video of Matsui's speech will be posted on the Hiroshima city government's website around Thursday.

Earlier on Monday, the mayor read out the peace declaration in Japanese at a memorial ceremony to mark the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Jiji Press