Amb. Ogasawara of Delegation of Japan to Conference on Disarmament visited Hiroshima Prefectural Government
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On February 4, His Excellency Ogasawara Ichiro, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, the Permanent Representative of Japan to the Conference on Disarmament paid a visit to the Hiroshima Prefectural Office for a courtesy call to Governor Yuzaki.
Amb. Ogasawara made a brief inaugural address to the Governor and introduced the efforts of the Government of Japan toward nuclear disarmament. The Governor explained a series of Hiroshima Prefecture’s education programs for peace including the Hiroshima Junior Forum, the Hiroshima – ICAN Academy, the Online Learning Program, and so forth, and stressed that we have to deliberate on the effectiveness of nuclear deterrence and a new security policy replacing the deterrence theory.
Amb. Ogasawara and Governor Yuzaki also confirmed to work together toward a world free from nuclear weapons from now on.