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No nukes: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima

April 17, 2015

Celebrities send 'no more Fukushimas' message in book to commemorate A-bombings

April 17, 2015

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201504170079

By HIDEKI SOEJIMA/ Staff Writer

A nuclear-free world is the theme of a book that expresses the thoughts of Japanese celebrities and others that will be released to commemorate the 70th anniversaries of the 1945 atomic bombings.

The 128-page book, titled "No Nukes: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fukushima," contains messages from 52 people, including such renowned artists as musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, actor Ken Watanabe and actress Sayuri Yoshinaga.

It is being published by Kodansha Ltd. and will go on sale April 20.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Toshihide Maskawa and writer Kiyoshi Shigematsu also present their thoughts along with messages from survivors of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which occurred on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, respectively.

In the book, Sakamoto, who became actively involved in the anti-nuclear movement following the March 2011 crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, writes, "Declaring to the entire world that mankind cannot coexist with nuclear arms and power should be Japan's responsibility and way of contributing to global society as the only nation that has suffered from nuclear damage three times."

Watanabe writes, "Now that we have tasted the fear generated by nuclear power, a substance that cannot be fully controlled by humans, I feel that we will be unable to give our children a future if we do not make a drastic shift to renewable energy sources."

For her part, Yoshinaga said, "I wish for the Japanese to always have an allergy-like resistance toward nuclear weapons and energy."

Ichiro Ozawa, 57, an employee at Kodansha, who was in charge of the book’s publication, was inspired to join the anti-nuclear movement in the summer 2013 after hearing Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue read that year's Nagasaki Peace Declaration.

The mayor stated, "I call on the Japanese government to consider once again that Japan is the only country to have suffered from a nuclear bombing."

Ozawa joined the Nagasaki Global Citizens' Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons that autumn where he conceived the idea for the collaborative effort.

Ozawa asked Yuji Shimamoto, the editor behind Shogakukan Inc.'s "Nihonkoku Kenpo" (Constitution of Japan), a bestseller that sold almost a million copies, to collaborate on the project. They were joined by seven students from Hiroshima University, Nagasaki University and Fukushima University.

"We are hoping that the message of 'no nukes' one day becomes a standalone phrase as common as the term 'barrier-free,' " Ozawa said.

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