In late September, amid the lingering summer heat in Hiroshima¡¯s Peace Memorial Park, hibakusha, or atomic bomb survivors, were once again collecting signatures.
Members of seven survivors¡¯ organizations have been taking to the streets every two months for the past four years to urge the Japanese government to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
¡°We¡¯ve long called for there never to be any hibakusha produced again, and that has given rise to a global taboo against using nuclear weapons,¡± said Kunihiko Sakuma, 80, chair of a Hiroshima prefectural hibakusha association. ¡°But now, we¡¯re at the brink of nuclear weapons possibly being used again.¡±
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