Komeito anti-nuke committee issues statement

October 26 , 2020

Masayoshi Hamada, a Komeito member of the House of Councilors, issued a statement on October 25 as chair of the party’s committee on the abolition of nuclear weapons. In it, Hamada noted that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons having reached the minimum of 50 ratifying countries, it will be going into effect on January 22, 2021. He cited the efforts of hibakusha, the surviving victims in Japan of two atomic bombings, and civil society in shaping and driving international public opposition to the inhumanity of nuclear arms.

He also reiterated Komeito Chief Representative Natsuo Yamaguchi’s call to the Japanese government to assume a leadership role in building an international framework to address nuclear prohibition, serving as “a bridge” to bring the countries with and without nuclear weaponry together on this issue.