Tag: Japan
On September 5, 1945, Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett published an article in London’s Daily Express, “The Atomic Plague,” which helped reveal to the world the horrific effects of the atomic bomb that had been dropped over Hiroshima.
Burchett estimated that 53,000 people were directly killed, with 13,000 having been seriously...
In the decades after the U.S. dropping of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, only one serviceman who participated in the bombing missions came forward to publicly declare that he felt remorse for what he had done and reached out to hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) by making charitable donations...
Although the Japanese were not a presence on the Sumud flotilla to Gaza that was recently seized by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), resulting in the arrest of major political figures from Italy, Spain, France and England, and setting off massive protests in Europe, nevertheless, thousands attended a carefully...
This is the second part of a two-part series, the first of which focused on Japan’s occupation of China prior to and during World War II, the human experimentation that occurred at Unit 731 (Japan’s bioweapons research facility in occupied Manchuria), and the after-effects of the Empire of the...
On September 3, 2025, the People’s Republic of China held a commemorative military parade to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Chinese victory over Imperial Japan in the second Sino-Japanese War.
The parade sparked outrage from Japan, inciting Tokyo’s leadership to urge European and Asian...
Beneath the aircraft-carrier ceremony celebrating a “new golden age” in U.S.-Japan relations, ongoing toxic discharges from the Yokosuka naval base reveal a grimmer alliance—one built on secrecy, contamination and a surrender of environmental sovereignty.
When President Donald Trump strode onto the flight deck of the USS George Washington at Yokosuka,...
President Donald Trump has expressed enthusiasm about Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, stating that her elevation to head the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in late October was “tremendous news.”
Speaking to U.S. troops aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in Japan on October 28 during his Asia tour, Trump introduced...
On the 80th Year Commemoration of Deaths in Hiroshima and Nagasaki From U.S. Atomic Weapons
In early August, I was in Hiroshima, Japan speaking at a conference on the 80th Anniversary of the horrific and unnecessary U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I also...
In late June, during public commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa—one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War that resulted in over 240,000 deaths—local authorities called for a reduction of the U.S. military presence in Okinawa, which hosts over 20,000 U.S. troops.
Last August, a...
Dedicated peace activists are committed to abolishing nuclear weapons amidst looming threat of nuclear war
Thank you for the opportunity to speak at the 2025 World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs.
I bring you greetings and solidarity from civil society movements in the U.S. which have been working diligently for...
