International Signature Campaign in
Support of the Appeal of the Hibakusha, the Atomic Bomb Survivors of Hiroshima &Nagasaki, for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Hibakusha Earnestly Desire Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
At present, humanity stands at the crossroads of whether to save our blue planet with all living
things on it as it is or to go along the road of self-destruction.
The two atomic bombs dropped on August 6th and 9th 1945 by the US forces totally destroyed
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an instant, and killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of peoplewithout discrimination. With corpses charred black, bodies with their skins peeled off and with linesof people tottering in silence, a hell on earth emerged. Those who narrowly survived soon collapsed
one after another. For more than 70 years since then we have struggled to live on, afflicted by thedelayed effects and by anxiety about the possible effects of radiation on our children andgrandchildren. Never again do we want such tragedies to be repeated.
After 11 years of silence following the A-bomb suffering, Hibakusha assembled in Nagasaki inAugust 1956 and founded Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A-and H-bomb Sufferers
Organizations. There we pledged that we would work to “save humanity from its crisis through thelessons learned from our experiences, while at the same time saving ourselves”. Since then we havecontinued appealing to the world that “there should never be another Hibakusha.” This is the cry of
our soul.
Wars and conflicts are still going on in the world, and many lives of innocent people are lost.
Nuclear weapons are being used to threaten others. There are also moves to develop new nuclear
weapons. The destructive power of existing nuclear weapons, which number well over 10 thousand,amounts to that of tens of thousands of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined. Nuclear weapons
are the “weapons of the devil”. They could wipe out the human race and all other creatures. They
could destroy the environment and turn the globe into a dead planet.
Human beings have prohibited the use, development, production and possession of biologicaland chemical weapons by treaties and protocols. Why do we hesitate to prohibit nuclear weapons,
which are far more destructive than these weapons? We, the Hibakusha, call on all State
Governments to conclude a treaty to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons.
The average age of the Hibakusha now exceeds 80. It is our strong desire to achieve a nuclear
weapon-free world in our lifetime, so that succeeding generations of people will not see hell on earth
ever again. You, your families and relatives, or any other people should not be made Hibakusha again.
We believe that your signatures appended to this appeal will add up to the voices of hundreds ofmillions of people around the world and move international politics. They will finally save the futureof our blue planet and all life on it. We earnestly appeal to you to append your signature to thispetition.
April 2016

Initial Proposers of the Appeal:
Sunao Tsuboi, Sumiteru Taniguchi and Mikiso Iwasa, Co-Chairpersons, Hidankyo (JapanConfederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations)
Terumi Tanaka, Secretary General, Hidankyo
Kwak Kwi Hoon, Honorary Chairman, Korean Association of Atomic Bomb Victims
Tsukasa Mukai, President, US Association of Atomic Bomb Victims
Takashi Morita, President, Associacao Hibakusha Brasil Pela Paz
Setsuko Thurlow, Hibakusha of Hiroshima, Toronto, CanadaYasuaki Yamashita, Hibakusha of Nagasaki, Mexico City, Mexico

International Signature Campaign inSupport of the Appeal of the Hibakusha for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Earnestly desiring the elimination of nuclear weapons without delay, we, theHibakusha, call on all State Governments to conclude a treaty to ban andeliminate nuclear weapons.
I, the undersigned, hereby support the Appeal of the Hibakusha:

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Signature*Your signatures will be submitted to the United Nations Organization and will not be used for any
other purpose.
Contact: Nihon Hidankyo (Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations)
Gable Bldg. #902, Shiba-Daimon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0012 JAPAN
Phone: +81-3-3438-1897 Fax: +81-3-3431-2113
E-mail: kj3t-tnk@asahi-net.or.jp