Hiroshima Grand Action 2025
80th A-Bomb Day, Aug. 6
HIROSHIMA ANTI-WAR ANTI-NUKE RALLY
Condemn Trump’s “Hiroshima and Nagasaki” remarks justifying the atomic bombings!
Stop a new world war, a new nuclear war!
In solidarity with Chinese and Asian people, stop the US and Japan’s aggressive war against China!
Rallies banned in Peace Park; Defeat wartime oppression of anti-war struggle!
■ Wednesday, Aug. 6
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6:30 Anti-war Anti-Nuke Rally at the A-bomb Dome
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8:15 Minute of silence
Demonstration to condemn the war-supporting ceremony attended by the Prime Minister -
12:30 August 6 Grand Rally
Sub arena of the Prefectural Sports Center
(4-1 Motomachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima) -
15:00 Aug.6 Grand March
■ Tuesday, Aug. 5
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Eve rally in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome
From 9:00 p.m. through 10:00
Morning of August 6,at the A-Bomb Dome
Speak Out Against War & Nukes from Hiroshima
◆This
summer marks 80 years since the atomic bombings; we are at a crossroads
whether or not to allow a new world war—a nuclear war.
◆On June
21, the US military dropped 14 of the world's largest bunker busters on
Iran's underground nuclear facilities. “That hit ended the war,” Trump
told reporters. “. . . an example of Hiroshima, . . . an example of
Nagasaki, but that was essentially the same thing.” While justifying the
dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he praised
himself for the massive bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities. The
Japanese government tolerated this, and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui
did not protest against Trump’s abusive remarks, but only said, “I wish
President Trump would visit Hiroshima.” Meanwhile, he is enforcing
“restrictions on entry to the Peace Park” to exclude workers, students,
and citizens, including atomic bomb survivors and their second
generation, who are trying to raise their voices against war and nuclear
weapons on August 6 this year. We will never allow this outrageous
move.
◆The Ukraine war, the genocide in Gaza, the bombing of Iran. . . as the flames of war spread across the world, the US, European, Japanese and other governments are competing to build up their military. The biggest source of a new world war, a nuclear war, is the clash between American imperialism and China over Taiwan. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth threatened China at the Asia Pacific Security Conference on May 31, “We will be prepared to . . . fight (China) and win—decisively.” Japan is working together with the US to set up a joint operational system against China regarding the whole of East Asia as a “one-theater.” The construction of missile bases and military fortifications in the Okinawa-Ryukyu Archipelago, the strengthening of Iwakuni base, and the construction of a “multi-functional composite defense base” in Kure—all of these are being promoted as part of a plan to turn the whole of Japan into a battlefield, a launching point for an invasion of China.
◆This war will end up in a nuclear war. The US is
investing an average of more than 10 trillion yen every year in the
development of new nuclear weapons, and Russia and China are
counteracting against it. It is now said, “the world has entered a new
era of nuclear arms race,” and also in Japan, former high-ranking
government officials and former Self-Defense Force top officers have
proposed that the Three Non-Nuclear Principles be amended and American
nuclear weapons be deployed in Japan.
◆Now is the time to stop a new
world war, a nuclear war! Led by second and third generation atomic bomb
survivors and young people, students and women who have inherited the
anger and struggle of the atomic bomb survivors on the forefront , we
will rise up in the August 6 Hiroshima Grand Action, on the 80th
Hiroshima A-bomb Day. Let’s stand in solidarity with the people in
China, Asia and the world, and raise our voices and take action
together!
