Bikini Day events convened in Shizuoka Prefecture from February 27^th to March 1^st, 2014. From whole country, many people participated in the event and peace rally to Kotokuin for tomb of Kuboyama Aikichi who left famous message, “I want to be a last person of victim of Hydrogen Bombs.”

On March 1st, 1954, Japanese tuna fishing boat, the Daigo Fukuryu Maru, and other many boats were operating near Bikini Atoll and were affected by the nuclear fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test. It was the third time of damages of nuclear weapons after Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Public opinion and activities for eliminating of nuclear weapons started to spread to other countries from Japan. The next NPT Review Conference is scheduled in 2015, and it is the 70th year anniversary of America’s atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

On February 28, the Japan Council against A and H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) held a national rally in Shizuoka City. Many activities in several countries reported. ZENKYO reported a message of young union member who attended NPT Review Conference 2010 in NY, “Citizen’s activities and signature rallies make the world go round. I was impressed by attending these activities.”

ZENKYO declared that planning signature rallies of “Signature Rallies of Calling for a Total Ban on Nuclear Weapons”, sending young union members to NY for NPT Review Conference 2015.