Mayors for Peace adopt 'Nagasaki Appeal'
World 16:34 11/08/2025NAGASAKI -- Mayors from across the world concluded a general conference in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sunday by adopting a declaration expressing their resolve to abolish nuclear weapons.
Hibakusha groups call on Japan to attend nuke ban treaty meetings
World 14:48 07/08/2025HIROSHIMA -- Seven groups of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima Prefecture on Wednesday urged Japan to attend meetings of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as an observer.
Nagasaki mayor to call on world leaders to work for nuclear abolition
World 17:03 01/08/2025NAGASAKI -- Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki said Friday that he will call on world leaders to chart a concrete path toward abolishing nuclear weapons, in a speech to be delivered at an annual peace ceremony next week.
Japanese groups unite for nuclear abolition
World 17:34 24/07/2025TOKYO -- Three Japanese organizations working for the abolition of nuclear weapons issued a joint appeal in Tokyo on Wednesday, calling for spreading across the country the reality of atomic bombings.
World entering new era as nuclear powers build up arsenals, SIPRI think tank says
World 10:57 16/06/2025STOCKHOLM -- The world's nuclear-armed states are beefing up their atomic arsenals and walking out of arms control pacts, creating a new era of threat that has brought an end to decades of reductions in stockpiles since the Cold War, a think tank said on Monday.
