High school students, bound for Switzerland, tell Hiroshima mayor about hopes to convey wishes of A-bomb survivors
Apr. 15, 2018
by Takafumi Hatayama, Staff Writer
Six high school students from Hiroshima Prefecture met with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the International Conference Center Hiroshima on April 14. The students will pay a visit Switzerland to coincide with the second Preparatory Committee of the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which will begin on April 23. In Switzerland, they will make presentations about their peace activities. They told Mr. Matsui that they hope to convey the wishes of the A-bomb survivors.
Mayors for Peace, for which Mr. Matsui serves as president, is sending eight students to Geneva, where the Preparatory Committee will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva. The group consists of two students each from Hiroshima Jogakuin High School and Shudo High School, both located in the city of Hiroshima; Eishin Gakuen, located in Fukuyama, in the eastern part of the prefecture; and Okinawa Shogaku High School, in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture. The students will visit the city between April 22 and 29 and take part in forums for young people involved in peace efforts. They will give presentations on their activities including interviewing A-bomb survivors about their experiences.
By school, the six students announced what they hope to do, such as expanding friendly relations with more like-minded people and learning what young people can do for the cause of nuclear abolition.
The six students are members of the “Nuclear Abolition Now! Signature Drive by Junior and Senior High School Students.” On behalf of the group, Natsumi Hiyama, 17, a third-year student at Hiroshima Jogakuin High School, handed the 60,316 signatures they have collected to Mr. Matsui. The list of signatures will be brought to the U.N. Office at Geneva.
Mayors for Peace began sending groups of high school students to meetings it sponsors in connection with NPT conferences in 2014, and this is the fourth such group. The eight students also serve as “Youth Communicators for a World without Nuclear Weapons,” appointed by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
(Originally published on April 15, 2018)
Six high school students from Hiroshima Prefecture met with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the International Conference Center Hiroshima on April 14. The students will pay a visit Switzerland to coincide with the second Preparatory Committee of the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which will begin on April 23. In Switzerland, they will make presentations about their peace activities. They told Mr. Matsui that they hope to convey the wishes of the A-bomb survivors.
Mayors for Peace, for which Mr. Matsui serves as president, is sending eight students to Geneva, where the Preparatory Committee will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva. The group consists of two students each from Hiroshima Jogakuin High School and Shudo High School, both located in the city of Hiroshima; Eishin Gakuen, located in Fukuyama, in the eastern part of the prefecture; and Okinawa Shogaku High School, in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture. The students will visit the city between April 22 and 29 and take part in forums for young people involved in peace efforts. They will give presentations on their activities including interviewing A-bomb survivors about their experiences.
By school, the six students announced what they hope to do, such as expanding friendly relations with more like-minded people and learning what young people can do for the cause of nuclear abolition.
The six students are members of the “Nuclear Abolition Now! Signature Drive by Junior and Senior High School Students.” On behalf of the group, Natsumi Hiyama, 17, a third-year student at Hiroshima Jogakuin High School, handed the 60,316 signatures they have collected to Mr. Matsui. The list of signatures will be brought to the U.N. Office at Geneva.
Mayors for Peace began sending groups of high school students to meetings it sponsors in connection with NPT conferences in 2014, and this is the fourth such group. The eight students also serve as “Youth Communicators for a World without Nuclear Weapons,” appointed by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
(Originally published on April 15, 2018)
