Nagasaki mayor to refer to Fukushima accident in peace declaration
NAGASAKI —
Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue on Thursday unveiled a draft of the peace declaration, which the city’s mayor delivers every year on Aug 9 to mark the anniversary of the city suffering an atomic bomb attack. This year, for the first time, in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, the declaration will call for a shift away from dependence on nuclear power generation.
Taue said that he felt it was important to reflect the Fukushima disaster in this year’s message, which will not only call for the abolition of all nuclear weapons worldwide, but also for Japan to move toward safer energy sources.
The declaration is drafted each year by a panel of scholars, A-bomb survivors and the mayor. Taue said the committee debated long and hard on how to reflect what happened in Fukushima from the standpoint of a city that suffered an atomic bombing.
Meanwhile, NHK reported that the panel was divided over whether or not atomic bombs and nuclear power can be viewed in the same way. Some participants said Nagasaki had a responsibility to call for a shift away from nuclear power, while others pointed out that a distinction should be made between atomic bombs and nuclear power generation.
Taue said the exact language of the declaration has not yet been decided because the peace declaration is a message to the whole world.
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some14some
In japan, ofcourse it should be viewed in the same way..."man made disasters."
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gogogo
Last years messaged stated Japan was a nuclear free country, now these guys are viewing power stations in the same class as nuclear weapons. I guess it took 3 reactors blowing up for them to realize this. I stated this fact years ago.
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MrDog
Hiroshima and Nagasaki had something horrible happen to them Okay. We know that. Stop using anything you can to harp on about how bad you think nuclear anything is.
This should read:
Victim-card playing FTW.
How can they be divided. Atomic bombs and nuclear power are 2 completely different things. Are they divided because they have no real idea about nuclear energy?
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electric2004
Sounds to me like the mayor wants to say something like "being the victim of a nuclear bomb is not nice". And then being the victim of the home made nuclear disaster in Fukushima is also not so nice.
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USNinJapan2
That's right, we are approaching the annual August Victim Week in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is rich, coming from a Mayor whose city is in a Prefecture that's powered almost 50% by nuclear energy.
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hoserfella
Usninjapan2- apparently the word "hypocrite" hasn't made it's way into the Japanese language yet.
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warnerbro
The mayor of Nagasaki can be a dangerous occupation in a country where the police largely ignore right wing crime. I hope the electric company doesn't send some goons out to persuade him otherwise.
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