The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo) on October 12, held a reception in the Tokyo Grand Hotel to celebrate the 60th anniversary of its founding. A letter of appreciation was presented to 12 organizations including JCCU, the Japan Seinendan Council, National Federation of Regional Women’s Organization and 20 individuals for the support they have rendered to Nihon Hidankyo for many years of their movement.

Japan Hidankyo was formed in Nagasaki on August 10, 1956, 11 years after the bombings by a group of victims of the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki called Hibakusha who gathered at the 2nd World Conference against A and H Bombs in Nagasaki. It is a national organization of the atomic bomb survivors.

Since their formation, they had requested for the enactment of “Hibakusha Relief Act” which is an Act on support for the atomic bomb survivors, dispatch of delegation to the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament, taken part in NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) Review Conference. JCCU and Co-op nationwide have been working in conjunction with Hidankyo in a call for creating a treaty to ban nuclear weapons by expressing members wish through signature activities as well as the dispatch of co-op delegates to the review conference of the parties to the treaty on the non- proliferation of nuclear weapons in the US.

WADA Toshiaki, Managing Director of JCCU also thanked Japan Hidankyo for the letter of appreciation and expressed JCCU’s continuing effort towards their movement.

Letter of appreciation from the Japan Hidankyo