Nihon Hidankyo Holds Rally before NPT Review Conference

Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, held a rally in Tokyo on Friday ahead of a review conference of the signatories to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, scheduled to be held in New York from April 27. Some 300 hibakusha atomic bomb survivors and others from across the country gathered in the Japanese capital's Nagatacho government district to demand that the government of the only country to have suffered atomic bombings in war to play a leading role for a world without nuclear weapons. "The global situation is becoming worse and worse," Nih...