Japan Digest, August 2024

At the official anniversaries memorial ceremony held at the Nagasaki Peace Park, Mayor Shiro Suzuki read out Japan marked a series of anniversaries related to events during the Second World the official Nagasaki Peace Declaration, War in August, starting with the 79th where he articulated growing concerns anniversary of the atomic bombing of about the rising nuclear stockpiles of Hiroshima on 6 Au. [...] In the annual He deplored ‘the increased likelihood of the Hiroshima Peace Declaration read out by disappearance of the important norm [of Mayor Matsui, the city of Hiroshima non-proliferation] that we have conformed criticised the return of the ‘public to thus far’. [...] The world was on the verge of reversal for the events saw a mass boycott by leaders of first time since the peak of the Cold War, several leading Western nations such as the and promised to work towards total nuclear United States of America, Britain and the disarmament. [...] the 78th anniversary of the surrender of its The Palestinian embassy in Tokyo wartime government that heralded the end criticised the city’s decision as displaying a of the Second World War. [...] The new head of unanimously elected the chair of the the LDP, who will become the next prime International Seabed Authority (ISA), a minister, is sure to call national elections body set up as part of the enforcement perhaps as early as the end of this year.