Nagasaki Youth Delegation 2020

School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University,Shiori Iwataka

My name is Iwataka Shiori. I am from Nagasaki city. I think it is my duty to report theimportance of peace to the world, so I decide to join this program.
I was born and raised in Nagasaki, and I have been studying peace and Nagasaki since mychildhood. Also because I belong to the third generation of the atomic bomb survivors, I
recognize myself closer to the problem of atomic bomb than ordinary people.
However, I have heard the opinion that “Nuclear Weapons are necessary” even in Japan.
Therefore, I would like to find out how to approach the people with different ideas moreproactively toward denuclearization. It would be very difficult to eliminate nuclear weapons
from the world right now. From a long-term perspective, to help the process toward the world
without nuclear weapons, I want to study with my group and send our message to the world.
I will do my best and enjoy the activity. Thank you.

Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, Aoi Osajima

Hello. I’m Aoi Osajima, a second-year student in the faculty ofEnvironmental Sciences, Nagasaki University. I’m from Kurume city,
Fukuoka prefecture. I went to junior high school and high school in SagaPrefecture and came to Nagasaki in the spring in 2018. Since February of my first year, I
started to join the activity “Peace Caravan TAI”, which is made by 4th Nagasaki YouthDelegation members. Through this activity, I have attended peace educations for students,
peace learnings with students from overseas, and exchanges with other peace activities
organizations. I met many people who struggled to create a peaceful world, and I began to feelthe potential to make the world free from nuclear weapons that I had felt was impossible until
then. In order to get many people to think the nuclear issues as familiar one, I believe that itis necessary to communicate facts and opinions by easy-to-understand ways with our voices.
To do this, I would like to deepen my knowledge of the nuclear issues, as well as deepen mythinking while exchanging opinions with many people.
Today, many young people are appealing for response for climate change and attracting

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attentions from all over the world. I want to attract these attentions to the nuclear issues, so I
will learn and disseminate about nuclear issues from various approaches, including
environmental science, which is my major. I'll do my best. Thank you.

School of Engineering, Nagasaki University, Kazuki Kawamura

My name is Kazuki Kawamura, I am studying electrical engineering in
Nagasaki University. I was born in Aichi and I came to Nagasaki when I
entered this university. When I was a middle school student, I lived in U.S.
and I realized that many people believe it is right to maintain or use nuclear weapons. I wasreally surprised and shocked to know, so I started to think how to tell what happened in
Nagasaki and Hiroshima and what I can do toward nuclear weapon free world.
It is said that around 14,000 nuclear weapons exist in the world right now. All nuclear
weapons are controlled by computers, so they have risk to be exploded by computer accidents
or human errors. That means, there are no safe places as long as nuclear weapons exist. By
joining Nagasaki Youth Delegation, I would like to tell threats of nuclear weapons fromscientific viewpoints and inspire many people to think more about extinction of nuclearweapons.

School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University,Sunao Takami
My name is Sunao Takami and I am working as Nagasaki Youth Delegation
8th, continuing from the 7th. I am from Tochigi prefecture which is little close toTokyo. In March 11th, 2011, the nuclear power plants exploded in Fukushima
which is the neighbor prefecture. The fear that I felt from the incident made me
consider the problems related to nuclear weapons as MY problems and wanted to claim on theabolition of nuclear weapons, so I participated in the delegation 7th to take actions. The reasons that I
applied for the delegation 8th are “to protect my future” and “to spread the circle of actions”. One ofthe biggest learnings through the experience of the delegation 7th is that every single one of us on thisplanet could be Hibakusha. Based on this learning, we had a presentation about the concept of “allhumans are HIBAKUSHAs” and many people told us that they had sympathized and they had been
moved by our presentation. I always want to keep to realize that there are things which are very close

Nagasaki Youth Delegation 2020and can destroy our lives and I want to protect this consciousness inside of myself. Moreover, everyonein this world has the rights to feel scared of the fact that we are the ones who live with nuclear weapons
and we have the rights to speak up and take actions for that. The 2020 review conference of NPT thatthe delegation 8th is going to participate in is held once in five years. I want to care about meetingpeople from all over the countries who have the similar ambitious with us and want to spread the circle
or range of actions and the consciousness. I will do my best.

University of Nagasaki Honoka Taniguchi

Hello everyone. I’m Honoka Taniguchi. I’m from Isahaya city inNagasaki prefecture and I’m studying at Department of Global and Media
Studies at University of Nagasaki now.
When I took part in a social gathering with Chinese students this summer, I had a chance tohear about the activities of the Nagasaki Youth Delegation. I could learn about the power ofnucleus and situation of nuclear weapons in the world and realized to be exposed the danger
on nucleus even if we live a peaceful life.
However, I felt that the war is an event of the distant past, although I’ve grown in theNagasaki prefecture. And I thought there are quite a few people who live without any senseof crisis the same as me.
Then I started to consider knowing about nuclear weapons or war is understanding current
situation, not learning about only history. We shouldn’t forget the importance of nuclear
abolition to build a peaceful and safe world. I can do something to abolish nuclear weapons
that’s why I live in the society that develop technology and international communication. I
live in Nagasaki. And I want to be mixed up many people and improve myself through theactivities of the Nagasaki Youth Delegation. Thank you.

School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki
University, Kaede Nakamura

Hello, everyone. I am Kaede Nakamura and a freshman at the Schoolof Humanities and Social Sciences in Nagasaki University. When I was an elementary school
student, I visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. I cannot forget that the big shock

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which I felt in Peace Museum. I strongly feel that nuclear weapons are never used forever, butI could not act to abolish or decline them. I started living in Nagasaki because I go to Nagasaki
University, and I saw that many people not only Japanese but also foreigners do not consider
about nuclear weapons with my own eyes, and I recognized that I must act to change it. Now,many matters of nuclear weapons become bigger and bigger, then we cooperate with manypeople. There are many nuclear weapons now, also there is possibility that they are used. Ibelieve that this situation is not true peace. I want to explain that terrible disaster caused bynuclear weapons, continuous suffering caused by radioactivity and especially nuclear weapons
are never used again. Through our activity, I want to contribute to abolish nuclear weapons.

School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University,Rin Miyake

Hello everyone. My name is Rin Miyake from School of Global
Humanities and Social Sciences of Nagasaki University. I am fromFukuoka prefecture near Nagasaki. I’ve been to Finland when I was ahigh school student and learned that there are lots of things to thank for in our daily life. I’ve
also learned that the personal small happiness would be a seed for bigger happiness in thefamily, the region, even for the country. When do you feel happy? Even during this busy andhectic days, I think everyone can feel happiness at some point in their lives. Nuclear
weapons, however, these are the very weapons that easily destroy our daily happiness just ina moment. The day when Nagasaki was attacked by an atomic bomb, tremendous happinessand smiles were lost forever. Many dreams, hopes, and possibilities were broken. Various
lives were totally ignored, destroyed, and only sorrow left in Nagasaki. We never allow suchan inhumane day. It is impossible to explain by words how terrible the nuclear weapon forthe people and environment. “Nagasaki should be the last victim city” I embrace thisstatement which many people have hoped so far and I will work hard as a member ofNagasaki Youth delegation. Thank you.