No More Hibakusha-Message to the World-NIHON HIDANKYO(Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations)
No More Hibakusha Project - Inheriting Memories of the A-and H-Bomb Sufferers

Special thanks go to;
YOKOTA Kazuhiko, URUSHIBARA Makihisa for their English translation
Scott KOUCHI for proofreadingIntroduction
Do you know about the world's first nuclear bombs dropped by the United States on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago in August 1945? The bombs brought about sucha disaster that cannot be expressed with words. They destroyed two cities,
indiscriminately killing non-combatants, and conjured a hell-like situation in whichhuman beings were unable to live with dignity.
Even to this day, wounds by the catastrophe have not completely healed, leaving an
emotional and mental scar that affects the children and grandchildren of the victims.
What we want you to know is that the use of the atomic bombs is not just an event in
the past, it has not ended as a page of history. The disaster could happen again.
Moreover, nuclear weapons are still being developed and the power they possess today
is incomparable to 75 years ago.
In hopes to prevent history from repeating itself, the A-bomb sufferers who survived
stood up and formed the "Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers
Organizations." They investigated the aftermath of the atomic bomb and shared theirexperiences with domestic and foreign supporters. They patiently worked in order toabolish nuclear weapons. Today, the A-bomb survivors, whose average age is now 83,
continue to act with the same determination they had when the organization was formed:"to save humanity from its crisis through the lessons learned from our experiences,while at the same time saving ourselves."
Is our greed worth the destruction of all living beings? Peace cannot be achieved withnuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are absolute evil that cannot coexist with humans.
There is no choice but to abolish them. This is the unwavering conviction of the A-bomb
survivors who have experienced the aftermath of the atomic bombs with their bodies.
This booklet is a list of English materials that can be read on the website, including
the basic documents of the "Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers
Organizations" and the testimonies and notes submitted to the Atomic Bomb Sufferers'Survey.
No More Hibakusha! We hope that you will see and use these materials so thateveryone in the world will never be a perpetrator or a victim of nuclear weapons again.
May 2020
Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Hidankyo)
No More Hibakusha Project - Inheriting Memories of the A-and H-bomb Sufferers

11. About Hidankyo
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/about/about1-01.html
Victims who survived the devastation of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima (August6, 1945) and in Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) formed the "Japan Confederation of Aand H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations" (Hidankyo) in August 1956. They wereencouraged by the progress of the movement to ban the atomic bomb triggered by
the Daigo Fukuryu Maru disaster in the hydrogen bomb testing at Bikini Atoll. They
have continued their activities to prevent others from becoming victims of atomicbombs.
This document consists of an introduction to the organization, purpose, and mainactivities.
2. Message to the World August 10, 1956 (Declaration for formation of Hidankyo)
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/about/about1-02.html
At the formation meeting of the "Japan Confederation of A- and H-BombSufferers Organizations," the statement was declared as the "Message to the World."
The message stated, "We have reassured our will to save humanity from its crisis
through the lessons learned from our experiences, while at the same time savingourselves." The spirit of the declaration in which their own sufferings are linked tothe task of human history that it does not let anyone in the world experience thehardship of themselves has been carried out by the movement afterwards, up to now.
3. A Call from Hibakusha of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: proceedings International
Symposium on the Damage and After-Effects of the Atomic Bombing ofHiroshima and Nagasaki, July 21-August 9, 1977, Tokyo, Hiroshima andNagasaki
Published for Japan National Preparatory Committee by Asahi Evening News, 1978.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/img/a-call-from-hibakusha-of-hiroshi
ma-and-nagasaki-01.pdf
In the late 1970s, a national delegation calling on the United Nations to bannuclear weapons requested the United Nations to investigate the damage caused by
the atomic bomb and the situation of the A-bomb survivors. In the summer of 1977,
an NGO hosted the first international symposium on the situation of the atomic
bomb and the situation of the A-bomb survivors. This document is the report of thesymposium. (The first 17 pages of the 288 page document are posted on thewebsite.)
The symposium was based on three nationwide surveys of A-bomb survivors anddocumented work by experts from various fields. A-bomb survivors who had been2struggling with the atomic bomb disaster had gathered together to abolish nuclearweapons. The image of such A-bomb survivors was revealed through thissymposium, and HIBAKUSHA became an international word. Also, the symposium"gave a human face to nuclear disarmament."
4. Statement by Senji Yamaguchi, Co-Chairperson of Hidankyo, at the SSDII, June24, 1982
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/img/820624senji-yamaguchi_speech.pdf
In 1982 when US and Russia tried to deploy the tactical nuclear weapons to Europe
and the anti-nuclear and peace movement was gaining steam in the world, theHidankyo sent a delegation of 43 people to the United Nations Second Special
Session on Disarmament (SSDII). On June 24, Mr. Senji Yamaguchi (Co-Chairpersonof Hidankyo) stood on a platform of the General Assembly as representing the liaison
conference of promoting the people's movement in Japan. This is the copy of hisentire speech.
A picture of him showing his own keloid scar while rallying for "No More
Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki, No More War and No More Hibakusha" was spread tothe world.
5. Document "No More Hibakusha-Atomic Bomb Victims Demand" November 18,
1984
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/about/about3-01.html
Although it is the "only country to be the victim of atomic bombing," the Japanese
Government has not recognized its compensation responsibility to atomic bombing
damages which was brought about by the war the state waged and have continued totake the policy that people should "endure the burden." In order to criticize andovercome this, the Hidankyo made this document of demands compiled by conducting
surveys and implementing nation-wide discussions.
This document showed that based on the experiences of the hibakusha, the atomic
bombs are anti-human and "absolutely evil" weapons which "never allow to die orlive as a human". It also stated that the hibakusha wish that no others become victimsof atomic bombs. This document, called the "Constitution of the Hibakusha
Movement," upholds two demands of nuclear abolition to be indispensable to its
realization and state compensation to the atomic bomb damages while asking theJapanese and US Government to take responsibility.

36. Witness of Those Two Days
Vol 1
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/weapons/pdf/the_witness_of_those_tw
o_days_Vol1_all.pdf
Vol 2
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/weapons/pdf/the_witness_of_those_tw
o_days_Vol2_all.pdf
The whole picture of the unprecedented atomic bomb damage was determined bysufferers themselves. The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers
Organizations, also known as Hidankyo, which carried out a variety of large and small
surveys, conducted "Atomic Bomb Sufferers' Survey," which targeted more than
13,000 people on a nationwide scale. The surveys were completed in 1985, on the40th anniversary of the atomic bombing.
From the responses described freely about one of the questions "About that day or
immediately after it, what you cannot forget even now, what you consider to be
dreadful, what you should have done but you couldn't do, etc." 1,000 cases wereexcerpted and this is a collection of testimonies in which 500 cases were edited into
Volume 1 and Volume 2. Please read out the extreme state which can only bedescribed as “hell” the atomic bombing brought about and the mental trauma not to beerased it had brought about to humans.
(* The testimony which was excerpted from this collection of testimonies is included
after page 7.)
7. Deaths of Hibakusha
Vol 1
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/weapons/pdf/the_deaths_of_hibakusha_Vol1_all.pdf
Vol 2
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/weapons/pdf/the_deaths_of_hibakusha_Vol2_all.pdf
The survey in 1985 includes the questions concerning the families of those whodied in the atomic bombing. Hibakusha described their families and showed vividly
how the atomic bombing killed people. Volume 1 contains the deaths from that day tothe end of 1945 (300 cases) and Volume 2 has deaths from 1946 to the time of survey(400 cases).

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8. Messages from Hibakusha for the 2010 and 2015 NPT Review Conference
For the 2010 NPT Review Conference, October 2009http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/img/150421.pdf
For the 2015 NPT Review Conference, April 2015
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hidankyo/nihon/english/img/091030e.pdf
These are excerpt messages from hibakusha to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty(NPT) Review Conference written with the hope to make them understand thesuffering inflicted on hibakusha caused by atomic bombing in order to make a reliableroad map to a nuclear ban and nuclear abolishment.
The 2010 edition included: (1) atomic bomb suffering as hibakusha to convey topeople in the world, (2) what we want to say to the Japanese and US Government
toward NPT Review Conference, and (3) what we want the United Nations to do.
The 2015 edition which was an oral transcription created jointly of hibakusha andyoung people consisted of: (1) when exposed to atomic bombing, (2) life after thebombing, (3) what to appeal to the world and next generation, and (4) feedback fromyounger generation.
9. The Atomic Bombing Exposed Part1 (film on YouTube January 12, 2015) (Atomicbombing's anti-humanity testified by hibakusha: Series 1)
Hibakusha put inhumanity of atomic bombing in their own words (series one).
Nuclear weapons cannot co-exist with human beings: introducing what atomic bomb
survivors spoke, wrote, and painted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cay0HWK5ziU&list=PL4UhoRnxMOGqKCi1xe
OWFSrG8BK02LMpZ
Nuclear weapons cannot co-exist with human beings. This is a video productintroducing the anti-humanity of atomic bombs and nuclear weapons based on thewords (notes or testimonies) from hibakusha themselves or drawings they painted.
(Total: 37 minutes 18 seconds)
・Part 1: Testimony of Mr. Mikiso Iwasa (A-bombed 1.2 km from the epicenter
in Hiroshima) (18 minutes 04 seconds)
He had to run away while his mother burned to death alive.
・Part 2: Testimony of Ms. Haruko Ochi (A-bombed 1.7 km from the epicenter
in Hiroshima) (5 minutes 58 seconds)
I have burdened a heavy cross in mind and body from that day totoday.
・Part 3: Extreme conditions to humanity (5 minutes 06 seconds)
・Part 4: Never to repeat to anyone again (8 minutes 10 seconds)

510. Memoir of Flames
https://honoo-no-memoir.themedia.jp/pages/3129802/page_201908151214
A memoir written by Ms. Nobuko Yamamoto (second generation JapaneseAmerican), the mother of Ms. Eiko Ono (who lived through the atomic bombing ofHiroshima). Ms. Nobuko Yamamoto wrote this memoir in English two years after theatomic bomb was dropped. Nobuko, who lost her husband and elder daughter at thetime of atomic bombing in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 wrote this memoir in such acondition as if her heart was spewing blood because she had a strong desire to convey
the cruelties of the atomic bomb to the people across the world. The memoir was sent
to the TIME magazine in US, but it was confiscated under GHQ's censorship, dashing
her hopes of having her story reach the rest of the world.
After Nobuko passed away at the age of 70, Eiko found the note among herbelongings and had endeavored to fulfill her wishes by publishing a leaflet. Eiko
passed away in the autumn of 2018. This is the official website in both Japanese andEnglish which has been opened by their bereaved family.

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