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Hiroshima Prefecture / Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) has released "Hiroshima Watch 2025." This statement aims to verify the compliance status of various countries with their nuclear disarmament obligations, clarify what each country must do in the future, and encourage action towards a peaceful world free from nuclear weapons.
What is "Hiroshima Watch"?
◆ This policy proposal reviews the status of each country’s fulfillment of nuclear disarmament obligations, clarifies the actions each country should take going forward, and calls for urgent action.
◆ The “Hiroshima Watch” was proposed during the “Hiroshima Roundtable” (*1), held in 2023. It was first created and published in 2024 , and this document is now in its second edition.
◆ In creating "Hiroshima Watch," data from the "Hiroshima Report" (*2), which is compiled annually by Hiroshima Prefecture / Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe), is referenced.
(*1) Hiroshima Roundtable
- Hiroshima Prefecture / Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) has been holding the "Hiroshima Round Table" since 2013 as a multilateral forum for nuclear disarmament discussions.
- The "Hiroshima Round Table" is chaired by Professor Kiichi FUJIWARA (University of Tokyo at that time) and includes participants such as former foreign ministers and researchers from Japan, the U.S., China, South Korea, Australia, and Russia, including Professor Gareth EVANS.
- Until "Hiroshima Round Table 2023", various recommendations were made to the international community in the form of chair statements, etc.
- "Hiroshima Watch" is being created and released for the first time in 2024, instead of the previous chair statements, etc.
Details of the "Hiroshima Roundtable" are available here
(*2)Hiroshima Report
- The "Hiroshima Report," compiled annually by Hiroshima Prefecture / Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) , scores and analyzes the actions of nuclear-armed and major non-nuclear-armed countries in the fields of nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation, and nuclear security based on certain criteria.
The latest "Hiroshima Report" is available here
The press conference for “Hiroshima Watch 2024”
About the name of "Hiroshima Watch"
The name "Hiroshima Watch" is inspired by "Helsinki Watch" (now Human Rights Watch), which was established to monitor compliance with the Helsinki Accords (1975) by governments in the former Eastern bloc and contributed to the democratization of this region in the late 1980s. Similarly, "Hiroshima Watch" aims to monitor whether governments are adhering to their commitments.
Appeal to the international community through "Hiroshima Watch"
The Hiroshima Prefectural Government and the Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace (HOPe) will send “Hiroshima Watch 2025” to all 193 United Nations member states and two additional regions, including Japan, accompanied by a letter from the Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture. This initiative aims to promote a peaceful world free of nuclear weapons by assessing each country’s fulfillment of nuclear disarmament obligations, clarifying the actions each nation should take going forward, and urging prompt action.
In the letter by the Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, as an appeal from the A-bombed city of Hiroshima, clarifies the responsibility of nuclear weapon states, states under the nuclear umbrella, and other concerned states for the abolitoin of nuclear weapons and nuclear disamament.The Governor calls on each state to take decisive action toward the abolition of nuclear weapons, and also requests each state to take concrete steps towards establishing a peaceful international society free of nuclear weapons.
Letter from the Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture sent in 2024 (PDFファイル)(73KB)
Past Editions of the "Hiroshima Watch"
The archive of past "Hiroshima Watch" is available via the link below.
