On August 6, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Soka Gakkai, a Buddhist organization, issued a statement declaring nuclear weapons to be abolished and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty entered early ( Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, TPNW).

The Soka Gakkai warned that every effort should be made to completely abolish nuclear weapons and urged the Japanese government to promote participation in the TPNW: “At this important time, Japan , the only country bombed with nuclear weapons during the war, should announce its readiness to participate in the TPNW and thus help shape the public discourse on the abolition of nuclear weapons within the international community. "

In his statement, Yoshiki Tanigawa , chairman of the Soka Gakkai Council on peace issues , said : “In recent years there have been signs that the arms race of the nuclear powers is intensifying again. At the same time, the spread of the novel corona virus showed that the military armed forces are unable to solve global challenges. This begs the question of what real security for humanity might look like. "

The full statement can be found at: https://www.sgi.org/in-focus/press-releases/75th-anniversary-hiroshima-and-nagasaki.html

On August 6th and 8th, Soka Gakkai will hold online meetings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with testimonies from Hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bombing. Last year, young members in these regions gathered further testimony from the war experience, including from Hibakusha, the last volume of which is due to be released this fall. Soka Gakkai in Japan will also host an online youth summit on war condemnation in September.

On a global level, the SGI (Soka Gakkai International), which includes around 200 organizations from various religious backgrounds (including Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jainite, Jewish, Muslim and indigenous traditions), signed a joint interfaith declaration on the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The declaration affirms that "the existence of a single nuclear weapon violates the core principles of our various religious traditions and threatens the unimaginable destruction of everything we treasure." The declaration outlines the environmental, health and economic consequences of a nuclear explosion and urges governments to sign the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty, the twelfth such interfaith statement issued since 2014 and supported by a growing number of religious groups.

Read the explanation here: https://20561860-86b7-4801-a5d6-af3a3b4e6a59.filesusr.com/ugd/dca5da_26cbc5f57ae94e36a3394ff914d00893.pdf

The Soka Gakkai is a Buddhist association for the promotion of peace, culture and education with 12 million members around the world. The Soka Gakkai has been committed to nuclear disarmament for 60 years, since the declaration of the second president of the Soka Gakkai, Losei Toda, on September 8 , 1957 , calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Contact:

Joan Anderson
International Office of Public Information
Soka Gakkai
Tel: + 81-80-5957-4711
Email: anderson [at] soka.jp
www.sgi.org

 

Source: prnewswire.com

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