Japan Calls Russia Nuclear Threat 'Unacceptable' on Hiroshima Anniversary

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Japan Calls Russia Nuclear Threat 'Unacceptable' on Hiroshima Anniversary​

Around 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and 74,000 in Nagasaki three days later, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities. STR / JIJI Press/AFP

• Asharq Al Awsat

05:42-6 August 2023 AD ـ 20 Muharram 1445 AH

Japan's prime minister hit out at Russian threats to use nuclear weapons as the country marked the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Sunday.

Around 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and 74,000 in Nagasaki three days later, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on the two Japanese cities days before the end of World War II.

"Japan, as the only nation to have suffered atomic bombings in war, will continue efforts towards a nuclear-free world," Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said at a ceremony in Hiroshima.

"The path towards it is becoming increasingly difficult because of deepening divisions in the international community over nuclear disarmament and Russia's nuclear threat," he said.

"Given this situation, it is all the more important to bring back international momentum towards realization of a nuclear-free world," he said.

"Devastation brought to Hiroshima and Nagasaki by nuclear weapons can never be repeated," said Kishida, whose family comes from Hiroshima.

Kishida's comments echoed those of UN chief Antonio Guterres, who issued a statement on the Hiroshima anniversary saying that "some countries are recklessly rattling the nuclear saber once again, threatening to use these tools of annihilation’, AFP said.

"In the face of these threats, the global community must speak as one. Any use of nuclear weapons is unacceptable," Guterres said.

At the ceremony, thousands of people -- survivors, relatives and foreign dignitaries from a record 111 countries -- prayed for those killed or wounded in the bombing and called for world peace.
Hiroshima however did not invite Russia or Belarus to the ceremony for the second-straight year because of the Ukraine crisis.

Participants, many dressed in black, offered a silent prayer at 8:15 am (2315 GMT Thursday) when the first nuclear weapon used in wartime was dropped.

Kishida hosted the G7 summit in the city earlier this year.

Kishida has tried to move nuclear disarmament up the agenda, having taken leaders of the wealthy democracies to Hiroshima's peace park memorials and museum.

However, there is little appetite to reduce stockpiles with Russia repeatedly issuing thinly veiled warnings that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, as well as repeated North Korean missile tests and stalling efforts towards non-proliferation.

Earlier this month, more than 100 medical journals across the world issued a rare joint call for urgent action to eliminate nuclear weapons, warning that the threat of nuclear catastrophe was "great and growing."

Japan Calls Russia Nuclear Threat 'Unacceptable' on Hiroshima Anniversary

Japan's prime minister hit out at Russian threats to use nuclear weapons as the country marked the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Sunday. Around 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and 74,000 in Nagasaki three days later, when the United States dropped...

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[Menthol]

'A' nuked Japan.

But 'B' is being blamed.

And Japan is one of the countries that will be nuked during the End Times.

I already said before that Japan should not be involved and take a side.

Japan is bringing disaster to themselves.

Japan is saying the A, but do the B.

 

[KAL-EL]

Japan should go for nuclear deterrence ASAP

 

[BHAN85]

Maybe they forget that the nukes were launched by their friend USA and it was not by Russia.

 

[Menthol]

Yes, Japan should worry greatly.

It's in the prophecy.

But by just talking alone, without action to reduce confrontation is useless.

What Japan said is actually increasing the unnecessary tension.


Japan is not a stupid country, but if you are destined to die, the seconds before you die, you become stupid that lead to your dead.