Officials attend 80th anniversary of atomic bombing
On Wednesday morning, a quiet prayer was made in Japan, 80 years since the US left an atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Hiroshima.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the ceremony on Wednesday with authorities from all over the world.
“Japan is the only nation who was subjected to atomic bombing in the war in Japan.” He said. “The Japanese government represents a person who wants real and lasting peace.”
World War II ended with the surrender of Japan after the bombs of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place for days.
The bombs killed more than 200,000 people – some of them immediately exploded, some of them are radiation and burns.
The legacy of the weapons continues to haunt those who survive today.
Hiroshima Survivor Shingo Naito told BBC, “My father was burned and blind. His skin was hanged from his body – he couldn’t even hold my hand.” He said. He was six years old when he hit the city of the city and killed his father and two younger brothers.
Mr. Naito shares his story with a group of students who transform tragedy memories in Hiroshima.
In 2024, a Japanese atomic bomb survivor Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to get rid of the nuclear weapon world.
In his speech on Wednesday, the Mayor of Hiroshima Matsui warned that “the tendency to accelerate worldwide acceleration” and “the idea that nuclear weapons are necessary for national defense”.
“These developments do not carefully ignore the lessons that international society needs to learn from the tragedies of history,” he said. “They threaten to overthrow the frameworks of peace construction, so he worked hard to build many of them.”
Matsui said that non -nuclear weapons aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and encouraging the peaceful use of nuclear energy is “on the verge of dysfunction”.
He also called on the Japanese government to approve the agreement on the prohibition of nuclear weapons, an international agreement that banned nuclear weapons that came into force in 2021.
More than 70 countries have approved the agreement, but nuclear powers such as the US and Russia pointed out the deterrence function of nuclear arsenal.
Japan also rejected such a ban, arguing that security was increased by US nuclear weapons.
The nuclear issue is a separatist issue in Japan. There were small protests on the streets going to the Peace Monument Park, which wanted to remove nuclear weapons.
Saitoshi Tanaka, a survivor of another atomic bomb, who had more than one cancer without being exposed to radiation, said today that seeing bloodshed in Gaza and Ukraine increased their own pain.
“When he sees the rubble mountains, the cities that are destroyed, the children and women who escaped in panic, everything brings back the memories of what I experienced.” “We live with nuclear weapons that can erase humanity many times.”
“The most urgent priority is to force the leaders of nuclear armed countries. The people of the world should become more angry, raise their voices loudly and take a big action.”
