At the call of JCCU, efforts are being spread among consumer co-ops nationwide joining the Hibakusha Appeal signature campaign calling for an international treaty to ban and eliminate nuclear weapons. Hibakusha Appeal is addressed from April 2016.

The Japan Promotion Committee for the Hibakusha Appeal takes the initiative, in which a total of 40 citizen groups participate in response to a call from nine A-bomb survivors.

The signatures literally convey the feelings of Japanese citizens towards the elimination of nuclear weapons, and intends to be submitted annually until the UN General Assembly to be held in the fall of 2020.

JCCU agrees with the spirit and has participated in the committee from 2016.

JCCU also worked on signature activities in cooperation with consumer co-ops nationwide and received a total of 205,306 signatures from 29 co-ops as of June 2.

Together with this number of signatures a total number of signature of each group gathered this time totaled 2,963,889 and was submitted at the United Nation Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from June 15 to July 7.