Since 1955, the Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeal has issued appeals from Japan repeatedly to promote peace on the international and domestic levels.

A military attack by Israel against the nuclear facilities of Iran is discussed openly as a possibility. In addition, a confrontation between the US and the Iranian navies and air forces in the Strait of Hormuz is an additional reason for concern, as it may cause unforeseeable consequences.

When we recall Israeli air raids, conducted disregarding international law, against an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981 and against a Syrian one in 2007, we cannot but be worried by the possibility of an attack by the Israeli air force over Iranian nuclear facilities. Such attempt, we believe, may well escalate into a large scale war

We share with the international community a serious concern about the insufficient transparency on nuclear research, development and utilization both in Israel and in Iran. We urge the two countries to renounce immediately any activity of military R & D of nuclear power and production and stockpiling of nuclear weapons they already have or plan to do so in the future, and to release without restriction to the international community all information on their nuclear facilities and operations. It will be a great step toward the realization of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East which has been proposed eagerly by our Committee among others.

The present imposition of economic sanction by the international community not against Israel but only against Iran violates the principle of fair and equitable treatment of all states and leads no stable settlement. We cannot admit it for this very reason.

Further, the lack of diplomatic relations between Israel and many neighboring states is a serious obstacle to the stability of the Middle East. This abnormal situation should be dissolved immediately by sincere efforts of both sides. We urge the concerned parties not to continue their confrontation of the past but to proceed, step by step, towards a desirable future in the Middle East through a peaceful cooperation of all parties involved. The improvement of relations between Israel and Palestine should be included among such efforts. We can affirm that this proposition is not a utopia but a realistic move in line with the historical progress of humankind. We find examples of such processes of reconciliation in the cases of the end of the cold war between the East and the West, the birth of the European Union and many other similar examples.

This appeal is based on the spirit of the Constitution of Japan, i. e., “all peoples of the world have the right to live in peace, free from fear and want” and “no nation is responsible to itself alone and the laws of political morality is universal”. We believe that the Charter of the United Nations also bases itself on the above principles.
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The Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeal believes that the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (Henceforth abbreviated as the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant) Explosion is an act of men triggered-off by the act of God of the Tsunami, and deserves to be carefully assessed. We appeal to all citizens, researchers, as well as media, business and government leaders to develop an intense dialogue to find ways to cope with the problems which surfaced from this tragedy.

1. The Accident of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company

At the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, human errors combined with natural calamity caused a cutoff of electric power complicated the already hopeless situation. And among the active six nuclear reactors, three melted down, and with the one of the three already interrupted for regular maintenance, hydrogen explosions occurred in four reactors, and their explosion was followed by a diffusion of radioactive material in the air, on the ground and in the sea. This unconceivable situation made the shutdown of the nuclear reactors unavoidable. All the 20 Nuclear Reactors on the Pacific coast as well as the Uranium Reprocessing Plant in Rokkasho-Mura are not functioning since the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident.

Even now, after four months have elapsed since the catastrophe, the nuclear fuel continues to be over-heated and cannot be controlled and stabilized. Although a possibility of rapid transformation of the present situation decreases, the danger of a new hydrogen explosion might occur. On the other hand, the highly polluted water used as coolant is still unmanageable. This included, the diffusion of radioactive material into the ground and beyond the borders of the Plant could not been put under control. This is why, even now, it is impossible to declare that the nuclear accident is over.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (henceforth abbreviated as TEPCO) and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (and formerly Ministry of International Trade and Industry) have proceeded to use Nuclear Power Stations in an easygoing way. As a result they could not deal with the accident properly and the damage expanded unnecessarily.

The local inhabitants of the regions affected by the East Japan Earthquake, who were forced to leave their houses, lands and belonging, experience intensive insecurity having been suddenly separated from their families, and having lost their links with the neighborhood community, many lost the pet animals and plants they loved, and have no more jobs guaranteeing their stable livelihood. The victims include those who experienced radioactive exposure and have this additional cause of insecurity especially intolerable. We must realize that all the victims of the Great Earthquake experience an incredible amount of stress and anxiety.

2. The right to live in peace free from fear and wants.

The citizens of Japan, reflecting the aggression to the peoples of neighboring countries until the World War II, declared in the Preamble of its Constitution that all peoples of the world have the Right to live in peace, free from fear and wants.

The Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeals established in 1955 continues since then to issue appeals for world peace and prosperity from a politically impartial position. It has opposed nuclear weapons and war unconditionally, and has proposed the building of a new world order through an international system of cooperation under a strengthened United Nations.

The Committee issued already in 2009 an Appeal entitled “Towards a World which Recognizes the Importance of Life” and emphasized on the “importance for humankind to realize fully its destructive capacity towards the geosphere and the biosphere” and “the importance that the development of knowledge, the use of power and the market activities be the object of regulation”.

However the crisis management policy adopted by the present government supporting the business community does not take into serious consideration the local inhabitants of the regions affected by the East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and the Fukushima Nuclear Power accident and especially the right to live in peace of the vulnerable sectors of the civil society.

The people of Japan regret the fact that this right is now violated for the victims of the Great Earthquake of East Japan. Now, the forcefully displaced citizens as well as those who continue to live, under high insecurity, in the neighboring areas of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant are living all in situations far from a peaceful life. Not less unpeaceful is the life of citizens in more distant regions from the plant, who live under the fear of possible radioactive exposure. They including the children who are forbidden to play outdoors, the women pregnant or rearing babies, the peasants and fisher people whose product cannot be sold because of possible radioactive pollution, all these people are certainly deprived from the right to live in peace and from other basic human rights. We firmly believe that nobody should be allowed to use the term “as much as possible” used in such an easy-going manner by the government and business leaders. We must give absolute precedence over any other principles our duty to act in solidarity with the victims of the nuclear catastrophe of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, and respect their rights to live in peace in any decision taken by the government and by the corporate community.

The Committee of Seven calls upon the government and the corporate sector of Japan to take into serious consideration the high insecurity of the Geosphere of the Japanese Archipelago, and apply the “Precaution” principle in their decisions which may trigger-off serious consequences for the security of the neighboring regions of the nuclear plants in cases of natural calamities. They should take utmost precaution about possible emergence of situations of acute insecurity which would be too late to prevent once the natural calamity has occurred.

3. Concrete Recommendations for the Shutdown of Nuclear Power Plants which destroy peace of mind and security

The generation of electricity using nuclear energy consists in producing a very large amount of radioactive material from the nuclear fission in the nuclear reactor, and uses the created heat for the production of electricity. Even after closing a reactor, the heat requires several years to be cooled down, and the radioactive materials need to be left under human control for more than ten thousand years. When such control fails to work, for whatever reason, the pollution of the environment, including human bodies, cannot be avoided.

In reality, the fact that during the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster of 1986 and the present Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident caused a massive diffusion of radioactive materials in the environment occurred and many peoples became victims. We have to realize that severe accidents will occur by acts of God and by acts of men. Considering further that

(1) no reliable and safe method of disposal and management has been developed on radioactive materials in the spent nuclear fuel,

(2) the nuclear fuel is not a sustainable resource on earth,

(3) the cost to settle accidents is gigantic,

we have to conclude that the nuclear power station is not a stable and safe energy source in future.

This is why many governments reach the decision to move away from the use of nuclear energy to generate electricity. This implies that the countries taking this decision will not be limited to Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Similar decision will have to be adopted by all nations of the world renouncing to use nuclear energy for electricity generation.

In Japan, the use of nuclear energy to generate electricity began with the building of the first nuclear power station in Tokai-Mura in 1966. Since then this trend grew rapidly and in 1997, after 31 years, the number of nuclear reactors in Japan was 53. After the shutdown of the first nuclear reactor the following year, the total number of reactors varied because some new reactors were built while other older ones were closed. When the Fukushima Nuclear Plant explosion occurred, a total number of 54 reactors existed in Japan. The increase of nuclear reactors had already stopped in 1997. Japan presently occupies the third place after the United States and France in terms of the number of nuclear power stations. There exist in contemporary Japan 11 nuclear reactors under construction, but even if all of the plan will be realized, with the inevitable successive shutdown of existing ones the size of nuclear generation of electricity is bound to decrease. Until now, there was a general policy of the government to continue using the nuclear power station beyond their service life of approximately 30 to 40 years. This policy is based on a check of existing nuclear power stations using the present official guidelines about safety assessment. However, the government recognized the deficiencies of these guidelines after the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Accidents. The guidelines are presently under review, and this is another proof that the present system is highly insecure.

Taking into account the above state of affairs, we propose the five recommendations which follow:

(1) It is necessary to close all the old nuclear reactors which have reached their service life, as the probability of trouble increases.

(2) The construction of all the nuclear reactors for electricity generation presently under construction or in their planning stage must be stopped or abandoned immediately, as the guidelines used in the evaluation of the safety review and assessment conducted by the regulatory authority are admitted by the Government as inadequate..

(3) Under Japan four plates (Pacific Ocean, North America, Eurasia, Philippines) collide with each other and an innumerable number of active faults run across the archipelago. In this situation it is foreseeable that major earthquakes and tsunamis are bound to take place. Thus all the nuclear power plants built close to the active faults and on areas accessible by tsunamis must be immediately closed.

(4) One of the reasons why the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident cannot be brought to conclusion is that six large-scale nuclear reactors were built close to each-other in an over-crowded site. Most nuclear plants in Japan have plural nuclear reactors. The order of their closing must be decided so that the size of the nuclear plant is immediately reduced.

(5) If there remain some nuclear power plants not yet closed according to the above criteria and all of the following conditions will be cleared, certain reactors may be left active for a strictly delimited time. This will be acceptable only if the possible occurrence of major accidents are clearly formulated and the informed consent of all citizens and all concerned parties are obtained, the nuclear reactor may be left active if appropriate safety measures are adequately taken, and if the approval by domestic and international third parties based on their autonomous evaluation is given, and if the agreement is ascertained about all citizens in the possibly affected area
If the above conditions are met, Japan will become a nation without nuclear power reactors at the latest, when the service life of all functioning nuclear reactors is reached.

4. The Abolition of Nuclear Power Plants is Practicable:

There are people, since immediately after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident, who says that nuclear plants are indispensable for Japanese economy. They repeat the phrase “upon securing their safety”, a phrase which is a groundless and not-concrete affirmation used for the past 50 years. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (and its predecessor, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and its external supportive agency, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, promoted the use of nuclear generation of electricity since the 1950s. Following the Fukushima Accident, they merely declared that the necessary measures have been taken following the Fukushima tragedy, instead of ascertaining the public safety, already when the overall damages caused by the accident were not yet fully known and the area radioactively polluted was still expanding. They also put pressure on the local citizens, in different sites of nuclear plants, to support the reopening of the nuclear reactors stopped for their periodical tests, affirming that the safety of nuclear reactors was proved to be safe after the Fukushima Accident.

We recall the fact that already when the plan of introducing in Japan nuclear power station began to be discussed, the Science Council of Japan (JSC) pointed out, from a purely scientific point of view, the questions regarding public safety against earthquakes, as well as regarding the disposal of nuclear waste, and the soundness of cost. It is now too late to point out the fact that the present casualties caused by the nuclear accident could have been avoided if the government had not totally ignored the remarks made by the scientists in the JSC.

In a world-wide context, the research, development and utilization of renewable natural energy is progressing and expanding well. During the last two years, the investment of China in this field has been highest in the world, and the investment in the field of renewable energy of the United States and France, two top countries of nuclear power plants, is among the top ten. On the contrary Japan invests so far only a very small part of its R and D expenditure in this field, and the gap with other industrialized countries keeps widening.

The energy policy of Japan has been so far dominated by promoters of nuclear energy. The production of electricity and its distribution and consumption was in the hands of electric companies with regional monopoly. All costs of electricity production have been automatically added to the electricity fee paid by the consumers. It is this system which permits practically all R and D expenditures in the field of energy to be monopolized by nuclear energy production, and importation of renewable energy was hampered by a variety of obstacles. This is why the gaps in renewable energy development between Japan and the other industrialized countries is mainly the consequence of these institutional restrictions.

In order that the inhabitants of the Fukushima Prefecture, victims of the recent accident, can be saved from the danger of becoming the victims of another nuclear disaster, the Fukushima Prefecture has started to take initiative to become one forefront Prefecture in renewable energy development. The Committee of Seven welcomes and wishes to extend to this Prefecture all possible support.

This is, nevertheless, not a problem limited to the Fukushima Prefecture, it consists the whole world which is presently faced with the urgent need to decide between two options. Should humankind continue the 20th century approach to control nature and develop a material civilization based on mass production, mass consumption and mass disposal as it did until now, or should it rather decide to adopt a different approach towards nature, treating it with due reverence, combining an awe to its devastating power with a gratitude towards all its gifts, benefitting from them through an ecologically symbiotic civilization.

The Committee of Seven proposes to the concerned citizens of the world the following concrete steps to develop urgently an energy policy oriented towards the second option:

(1) To adopt a clear priority in research, development and utilization of energy resources on renewable natural energy, and to eliminate all institutional obstacles hampering the reorientation of technology and economics from its present emphasis on scale, concentration and standardization to a new orientation stressing scaling-down, de-concentration, and diversification.

(2) The awareness of the necessity to reduce energy consumption is rapidly spreading among the citizens and the corporate community in Japan. Further reduction of electricity consumption, the increased use of energy-saving devices increasing the efficiency of the use of energetic resources, an extensive effort to reduce the fluctuation of high and low times in energy consumption, the introduction of individual household electricity generation reducing the public consumption of electricity in peak hours, all these measures are now under intensive consideration in Japan, where the major problem is the lack of electricity focuses on short peak hours in the summer.

(3) The two above policies will make it possible the accelerated closure of the remaining nuclear plants, and should lead to shorten the time when all nuclear plants are closed down definitively.

In applying the above policies, it is essential to cease thinking that energy should be generated according to an unlimited demand of the national economy, and give absolute priority to the right of the citizens to live in peace free from fear and wants, and reduce the use of energetic resources in accordance with the citizen’s will to live simply within the range of energy resources usable without any danger on their security and prosperity.

Since the mid-1950s, the successive Liberal Democratic Government of Japan developed a national policy to develop the technological capacity of Japan to have access to nuclear armament while not becoming a nuclear weapon country during the time they keep power. In fact the nuclear power stations were developed, and a massive production of plutonium was realized with the acquisition of uranium enrichment. This policy combined with the nuclear umbrella strategy presupposing the usefulness of nuclear weaponry made Japan suspicious of intending an eventual access to the nuclear power club. If Japan decides unambiguously to cease using nuclear power generation of electricity this suspicion will be removed in the eyes of the world.

5. The Strengthening of IAEA Intervention in Nuclear Power Plant

IAEA which was founded in 1957 as a special organization of the United Nations contributed to develop the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to prevent the military utilization of its activities in the non-nuclear weapon countries. The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Accident of 26 April 1986, the leakage of radioactive materials to environment was terminated after ten days of the accident, and IAEA organized an international expert meeting in Vienna, four months later in August 25 to 29.

At the break of the Accident of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, we hoped that an unconditional cooperation, beyond differences of viewpoints, could be developed, domestically and internationally, towards the earliest resolution of the Accident. This is why we have abstained from any critical remarks until today. However, it is to be regretted that even now four months after the Accident, it is not yet possible to make an accurate assessment of all the aspects of the Accident.

When we study the activities of the TEPCO and of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency they lacked any long range perspective and kept taking short term measures which are simply disappointing. On top of this, their optimistic estimation of the situation caused them to take action only too late and led to the inacceptable aggravation of the disaster. The lack of their transparency made it difficult to assess the real situation and the citizens were thus excluded from the process of recovery. The Government of Japan and TEPCO should have trusted the citizens and tell them frankly about uncertainties and about potential dangers. They did not do so and they have lost the credibility from citizens and this led us to the present impossible situation.

The effect of accident of nuclear power plants expands over the national boarder and the limit of the territorial waters. We hope not to leave measures only to the concerned parties but to concentrate all wisdom together from all over the world. We expect in the future a more active role played by IAEA. This Organization should prepare in peaceful times in preparation of emergencies, international standards on public safety, taking into consideration both the scientific and technological and the social aspects of the safety of nuclear reactors.

IAEA should conduct inspections not only to prevent the military misuse of the nuclear issues, but also to guarantee their full knowledge of the large facilities developed for the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

This would permit their intervention in case of nuclear emergencies, which should not be limited to giving advice in case they are consulted, but a more active role in organizing expert teams and play a leading role in the process towards the complete resolution of the nuclear accidents.

We sincerely expect the IAEA and all member states to discuss this problem.

We wish also to draw the attention of the citizens and the experts concerned about the possible sources of insecurity which accompanies the present trend of export of nuclear plants from industrial countries including Japan to the developing countries. This export is inevitably accompanied by a potential great disaster. Some accidents of nuclear plants may occur following natural calamities, and this may cause unbearable situations of insecurity for the vulnerable citizens in the recipient countries. We firmly believe that such exportation should not be permitted.
We appeal to the international community to take positive actions to develop international cooperation in strengthening the research, development and utilization of renewable natural energy.

6.Concluding Remarks:

Japan experienced a man-made catastrophic situation, the explosion of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, following the acts of God, the Earthquake and Tsunami during the March 11 East Japan Earthquake. Japan, thus, became the victim of both the military use of nuclear power in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of its peaceful utilization in Fukushima.

This is why, the Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeals, shares the sincere wish of many citizens of Japan, in calling upon all the peoples of good-will of the World at large to start a global movement towards the abolition of all military use of nuclear power as well as the closure of all nuclear power plants.
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Dear Mr. Secretary General,
We sincerely welcome your visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We have appreciated your eager efforts to realize a world free from nuclear weapons, including your keynote address “The United Nations and security in a nuclear-weapon-free world” delivered at a symposium held in the United Nations Headquarters on October 24, 2008 and your leadership at various occasions in the United Nations.
The Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeal was established by seven leading intellectuals in Japan on November 11, 1955 with the first statement “An Appeal to the 10th General Assembly of the United Nations” appealing to strengthen the role of the UN and to seek the abolition of war. It was in the following year of US hydrogen bomb experiments at Bikini Atolls which led serious consequences to Japanese fishermen and Marshall Islanders and in the same year when the Russell-Einstein Manifesto was issued, stating that ‘Remember your humanity and forget the rest’.
Since then the Committee has issued 102 international and domestic appeals by July 2010 based on peace, justice and humanity by personal capacity independent from outside.　 We have pursued the abolition of nuclear weapons from the beginning, convincing that any conflicts in the world should be solved by peaceful means. 　We believe that the possession of nuclear weapons and the adoption of the doctrine of nuclear umbrella should be and can be abandoned without exception for any nations. The latest appeal was “We urge all states to start negotiating for a convention on prohibition and destruction of nuclear weapons leading to its earliest conclusion” issued on April 8, 2010 where we referred explicitly your address of October 24, 2008. We are sure that these appeals are of the same spirit with yours. We attach a set of copies of these two appeals.

We strongly support your position and express our sincere hope that you will continue to push your efforts forward in materializing the complete abolition and destruction of nuclear weapons. We pledge to make further efforts to realize a nuclear-weapon-free and war-free world with you.

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At this crucial moment on the wake of the Review Conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT, to be held on May 3-28, 2010) and the Summit on Nuclear Security (to be held on April 12-13, 2010), we, the Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeal, recall and support the key note address by Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, delivered at a symposium held in the United Nations Headquarters on October 24, 2008 on “The United Nations and security in a nuclear-weapon-free world”.

The Secretary-General made there a five-point proposal, many of which, including following points, still remain unsolved at the present time.

First, he urges all NPT parties, in particular the nuclear-weapon states, to fulfill their obligation under the treaty to undertake negotiations on effective measures leading to nuclear disarmament. …They should consider negotiating a nuclear weapons convention, as has long been proposed at the United Nations.

His second proposal includes that the Security Council’s permanent members, the nuclear-weapon states, should unambiguously assure non-nuclear-weapon states that they will not be the subject of the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. Non-NPT states should freeze their own nuclear-weapon capabilities and make their own disarmament commitments.

His third initiative relates to the ‘rule of law’: the CTBT, a fissile material treaty, and nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties. He urges all NPT parties to conclude their safeguards agreements with the IAEA, and to voluntarily adopt the strengthened safeguards under the Additional Protocol.

His fourth proposal concerns accountability and greater transparency with expanded amount of information.

Fifth and finally, he points out the fact that a number of complementary measures are needed, including the elimination of other types of weapons of mass destruction (WMD; as well as the limits on the production and trade in conventional arms.

We agree with all these recommendations. In particular we call upon all states, especially nuclear-weapon states to start quickly the negotiation on the nuclear weapons convention. This is because of two reasons:

First, we are convinced that all the people of the world appreciate the fact that the General Assembly of the United Nations has called upon “all states immediately to fulfill that obligation by commencing multilateral negotiations leading to an early conclusion of a nuclear weapons convention prohibiting the development, production, testing, deployment, stockpiling, transfer, threat or use of nuclear weapons and providing for their elimination” in the Resolution “Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons” adopted annually from 1996 (December 10) to 2009 (December 2). The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission chaired by Hans Blix also recommended that all states possessing nuclear weapons should commence planning for security without nuclear weapons and they should start preparing for the outlawing of nuclear weapons, as stated in their report “Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms” submitted to the United Nations in June 2006.

The other reason is that we believe it is indispensable to adopt unambiguous legal regulations on the illegality of nuclear weapons in addition to the present NPT regime. The US President Barack Obama has expressed repeatedly the necessity to strengthen the NPT. We agree on the importance of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. However the NPT regime is not enough to eliminate all nuclear weapons from the Earth. Because it is extremely difficult, as shows past history, to bring the non-NPT states, especially India, Pakistan and Israel, into the NPT regime. We are convinced that, overcoming the NPT, all member states of the UN should commence sincere negotiation based on the Model Nuclear Weapons Convention promoted by Costa Rica and Malaysia which was mentioned by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his above-mentioned address.

It is important to notice that India, Pakistan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Iran voted favorably on the Resolution “Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons” at the General Assembly of the UN all the way since 1996. As we mentioned previously “commencing multilateral negotiations leading to an early conclusion of a nuclear weapons convention” is included in this Resolution. This means that the nuclear weapons convention is most effective and urgent way to put nuclear weapons under the rule of law covering both NPT states and non-NPT states and to prevent the danger that nuclear weapons become available to non-state organizations.

We urge all member states of the UN to start immediately negotiating for a nuclear weapons convention leading to its earliest conclusion,.

Contact:
Michiji Konuma, Secretary General,
Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeal
e-mail: mkonuma254@m4.dion.ne.jp
Fax: +81-(0)45-891-8386
URL: http://worldpeace7.jp

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for USA to ratify immediately the Convention on Biological Diversity

We would like to request that you extend your genuine concern to build a world where Life receives due respect and concern. Beginning with Humankind, which annihilation by nuclear holocaust, has already been warned by the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in the next year of the 1954 Bikini Nuclear Test of the United States, the rapid reduction of other life species due to human activities is now also a matter which should be rapidly taken care of.

The Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeal has recently issued the ‘Aichi-Nagoya Appeal Towards a World where Life is Respected – Appeal for the COP10 to the Convention on Biological Diversity to be held in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010’ (WP7 No.99E). In the Appeal we have expressed our request for the Government of the United States to ratify immediately this Convention and participate in the COP10. Your initiative to stop the present process of Biological Diversity reduction will be respected and remembered by the next generations around the world as a key decision in saving from extinction of so many species, and we thank you in advance for taking the necessary decision enabling the United States to participate as a signatory party the COP10.

Contact:
Michiji Konuma, Secretary General
e-mail: mkonuma254@m4.dion.ne.jp
Fax: +81-(0)45-891-8386
URL: http://worldpeace7.jp

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for abolition of nuclear weapons towards the world free from war

First of all we the Committee of Seven for World Peace welcome your visit to Japan on November 13 and 14, 2009 and extend our sincere congratulations to your Nobel Peace Prize.

It is our pleasure to know that the great majority of people in the world have welcomed your leadership at the Security Council of the United Nations on September 24, 2009 for the unanimous adoption of the Resolution 1887 and your speech on nuclear weapons delivered in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 5, 2009, promising to take concrete steps towards a world free from nuclear weapons. We also remember well your speech in Berlin on July 24, 2008 and your Renewing America’s Promise at the Democratic Convention on August 25, 2008. In these occasions you repeated America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.

Two days ago your comment in an exclusive interview with NHK in the previous day was broadcasted in Japan. You mentioned that you would be honored to have the opportunity to visit the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which experienced atomic bombings, during his presidency, although your schedule did not allow you to visit this time and that the memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are etched in the minds of the world. Your words show once again that you convince firmly to realize the world free-from nuclear weapons. The Japanese citizens, especially surviving hibakushas, victims of atomic bombings in these cities, share your ideas and expect your concrete positive actions.

It is the time for all human beings to remember the spirit of the United Nations that all members shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered. The Constitution of Japan stating that we recognize that all peoples of the world have the right to live in peace, free from fear and want is based upon the completely same idea.

The Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines have entered in to force. The Convention on Cluster Munitions is following. The role of nuclear weapons should be denied immediately with no reservation for all human beings. The Convention on Nuclear Weapons has to and can be realized.

Here we wish to introduce ourselves.

The Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeal was established in Japan in 1955 by seven influential intellectual persons at the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations, appealing the strengthening the roll of the UN and to seek the abolition of war. It was in the same year when the Russell-Einstein Manifesto was issued, stating that ‘Remember your humanity and forget the rest’. Since then the Committee has issued its international and domestic appeals based on peace, justice and humanity by personal capacity independent from outside. We have pursued the abolition of nuclear weapons from our starting days, convincing that any conflicts in the world should be solved by peaceful means. 　We believe that the possession of nuclear weapons and the adoption of the doctrine of nuclear umbrella should be abandoned without exception for any nations. The present message is our 100th appeal.

Contact:
Michiji Konuma, Secretary General
e-mail: mkonuma254@m4.dion.ne.jp
Fax: +81-(0)45-891-8386
URL: http://worldpeace7.jp

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Towards a World where Life is Respected
Appeal for the COP10 to the Convention on Bio-diversity
to be held in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010

6 November 2009

The Committee of Seven for the World Peace Appeal

Members: Kinhide Mushakoji, Hideo Tsuchiyama, Yoshino Oishi, Hisashi Inoue, Kayoko Ikeda, Michiji Konuma, Satoru Ikeuchi

One year before the tenth Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Committee of Seven for the World Peace Appeal calls upon the United States of America to ratify this Convention and invites all the Parties to the Convention as well as all the other states of the world and all the citizens of the world to deepen their awareness about their responsibility to respect life and its diversity. In this connection, the Committee calls upon all states and citizens to consider the following points:

·The need for humankind to be aware of its power to destroy the geo-sphere and the bio-sphere:

At the final stage of the evolution of life on Earth, humankind built the noos-sphere on top of the geo-sphere and the bio-sphere, and transformed Nature making full use of its science and technology. The contemporary world community has mobilized the power of its knowledge covering a wide range of phenomena from nuclear energy to genetic information in order to extract useful services from nature. This power, on the other hand, has been developed to the extent that it can easily be misused and destroy all species living on Earth.

The Russell-Einstein Manifesto which called for the abolition of nuclear weapons and renunciation of war in 1955 was a warning against the annihilation of humankind as a species. On the occasion of COP10 to the CBD, humankind should recognize the fact that it emerged at the apex of evolution with the capacity to destroy the bio-sphere and the geo-sphere.

·The need to develop ethical and legal standards guaranteeing the “Right to Live in Peace” of all living beings.

Nowadays, international opinion demanding the abolition of nuclear weapons is gaining increasing support, however, the threat of annihilation by humankind experienced by many non-human species increases as the pressure on nature exercised by neo-liberal globalization gets stronger. It is under these circumstances that we appeal the world community to acknowledge basic principles shared by humankind with all other species, and develop ethical and legal standards for all human activities in accordance with the “Earth Charter” issued in 2000 applying to all living species the “right to live in peace” specified in the Preamble of the Constitution of Japan.

·The need to regulate intellectual activities, exercise of power, and market transactions:

It is urgently needed to develop ethical self-regulation, by the key decision-makers in global governance, the scientific and technological experts and technocrats specialized in the production of knowledge, the holders of political power, and the corporate agents who shape the economy and financial market, which must be guided by domestic and international legal constraints.

The “Earth Charter” proposes important principles and the CBD defines legally the necessary conditions of such ethical regulations, but they both do not provide their sufficient conditions which should include, among others, the ethical self-regulation based on human common-sense and their legal framework, based on the principle of prevention of possible negative consequences, of research and development of bio-technology, including genetic manipulation which can easily become the cause of the destruction of the bio-sphere if misused.

·The need to develop a cyclical market economy making the diversity of life sustainable:

Before the industrial revolution, humankind lived for several millenniums a bio-system sustaining subsistence economy. During that time the specific value and dignity of all the diverse living beings were respected and humankind produced secondary nature like “satoyama” which are hills and low mountains tied up with daily life, located near rural dwellings, receiving services from ecological resources, providing adequate return-services to the bio-sphere through a cyclical bio-system sustaining subsistence economy.

However, the Capitalist market economy developed under the leadership of Europe and North America, evolved into the contemporary global financial Capitalism making full use of the services extracted from the ecological system. The modern civilization, accompanied by industrialization and urbanization, exploited, to the extreme, the ecological system, and developed into a mass-production, mass-consumption, and mass-disposal system. The diversity of life was thus selectively exploited on the sole basis of their commercial values, and this caused the widening of rich-poor gaps among humans and threatens nowadays the very subsistence of a growing number of species.

The contemporary global financial crisis makes it clear the un-sustainability of this solely growth-oriented market economy, and this un-sustainability is confirmed by the critical issues of the bio-sphere and of the whole of the ecological system, such as the accelerated reduction of bio-diversity and global warming. It is within this global context that two third of humankind waits economic development while continuing to live in the subsistence economies.

The CBD justly includes among its objectives the fair distribution of the returns from ecological resources, beginning with genetic resources. What is necessary now for humankind is, in this connection, neither to return to subsistence economy nor simply to redistribute the returns from the commodities produced using the ecological resources turned into mere commodities. It is rather necessary to develop a process enriching mutually the respective lives of all parties through an exchange of services between humans and other living species. In brief what is necessary is the development of a new cyclical market economy making the diversity of life sustainable.

The indexes of bio-diversity should not only represent the decrease of bio-diversity. It should measure the different destructive trends of the global financial market economy on the ecosystem, and the counter-trends in the lifestyle of the citizens and the improved sustainability of bio-region economies.

·The need of transformative actions learning from traditional knowledge, innovations, and practices:

In order to develop a global market economy embed in the life-system sustaining subsistence economy, turning the global economy open to the diversity of life, it is essential, as it is mentioned in Article 8,j of the CBD, to learn from the indigenous communities and the traditional local “village” communities their knowledge, innovations, and practices, and to create, as they do, a local economy sustainable and autonomous local economy based on a mutually beneficial exchange of services between humankind and other species.

To this end, all imposition of global standards should be replaced by a patient economic reform of the local communities based on the adoption of a new ecologically healthy life-style, through awareness-building efforts in line with the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) promoted by the United Nations.

·The need to overcome poverty and activate local economies of bio-regions:

As we saw above, the indigenous and traditional local communities have maintained their bio-system sustaining subsistence economies under the pressure of the global economy. Be it in Asia, in Africa, or in Latin America, they all maintain their traditions to live in peace with their local environments, such as the “satoyama”, be it in the rural regions, the mountains or the fishing villages. It is essential to liberate them from the homogenizing global pressures of industrialization and urbanization which affects bio-diversity in the world.

It is especially necessary to avoid that the developing regions be further affected by the speculation of the global finance which commercialize the bio-sphere resources and services and enable a small minority to monopolize the benefits obtained from them. The fair distribution of eco-system resources is indispensable in the reactivation of the bio-system sustainable subsistence economies in the developing regions which should share with the industrialized countries the same principles. These principles should be respected in all development plans, which should be developed with the full participation of the citizens of the target region, and carefully designed not to destroy the bio-system sustainability of the sustainable economy to be developed towards the elimination of poverty and the activation of the local economy.

We, the Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeal calls upon all the states and citizens of the world to develop ethical and legal standards guaranteeing the “right to live in peace” of all living species, and to integrate the market economy with the life-sustaining subsistence economies. To develop such a process of global economic reforms stopping the present trends endangering bio-diversity, should become one of the major objectives of the post-2010 road-map towards 2020.

Contact:
Michiji Konuma (member; Secretary General)
200-9 Kudencho, Sakaeku, Yokohama 247-0014 Japan
Fax: +81-(0)45-891-8386
e-mail: mkonuma254@m4.dion.ne.jp
URL: http://worldpeace7.jp

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The Committee of Seven for World Peace Appeal expresses its deep concern for the extremely serious situation in Gaza: it was occupied from 1967 to 2005 and has been put under siege for eighteen months, and incessant air raids have continued since 27 December 2008 and lastly Israeli ground troops invaded Gaza several hours ago leading to further escalation of the conflict.

1

The Committee calls upon the Government of Israel to cease its attack on Gaza immediately. The area is very much densely populated, and the attack by Israel, from the air and on the ground, cannot avoid inflicting casualties on the one and a half million civilian population. The destruction of administrative, cultural and educational, or religious institutions is unacceptable, and bombing civilian hospitals is a clear violation of the Geneva Agreement and cannot be tolerated by the international community (see Note 1).

The Committee demands also that Israel refrains from obstructing the visit to Gaza of the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations, Dr. Richard Falk (see Note 2) and abolish all restrictions on the visit of journalists to this area. The UN and civilian visitors of Gaza must have their safety guaranteed by the army and the Government of Israel.

They must guarantee the free movement of the wounded citizens and all others desiring to move out of Gaza.

2

The Committee calls upon the Hamas Authorities in Gaza to avoid retaliation causing an endless series of counter-retaliations. It calls upon all the neighboring countries and peoples to exercise utmost restraint to permit an immediate ceasefire.

3

We call upon the United Nations and its member States to take note of the plight of the citizens of Gaza Area, and mediate between the belligerent parties, demanding an immediate ceasefire, from a humanitarian point of view. The United Nations and the international community have been extending to the citizens of Gaza humanitarian support. In the face of the present humanitarian crisis, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the civil organizations express their deep concern (see Note 3). We join them in calling upon the United Nations and its member States to strengthen their assistance to rebuild the living conditions of the citizens of Gaza which have been destroyed during the present conflict.

4

We appreciate the emergency assistance repeatedly given to Palestine by various sources including Government of Japan. We expect that the Government of Japan also profits from the fact that it holds a seat as a non-permanent member on the U.N. Security Council, and presents concrete recommendations, as the French Government has done, towards peace in line with the principles of the Constitution of Japan (see Note 4).

The Government of Japan must conduct a survey in Gaza exercising its right to survey all the possible damages incurred at various institutions built with its ODA, and must present its complaints to the Government of Israel, while developing all kinds of constructive efforts to reestablish peace and bring human security in Gaza.

5

The Committee calls upon all the citizens of the world to continue expressing forcefully their will to support peace in Gaza.

Note 1

“Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict.” (The Article 18 of the Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949)

Note 2

On 15 December 2008, after detainment for 20 hours at the Ben Gurion Airport Israeli authorities deported Dr. Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who had arrived in the country to conduct his duties to investigate rights abused in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Dr. Falk was concerned about the possibility that the siege of Gaza since Hamas had assumed power in this area denied to the citizens the basic conditions of a descent human life, and thus constituted a “crime against humanity”. He wanted to enter in Gaza to investigate this matter.

Note 3

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Occupied Palestinian Territory, issues concrete and detailed reports nearly everyday on the serious situation in Gaza, including the Gaza Humanitarian Situation Report. See, http://www.ochaopt.org

Note 4

“We recognize that all peoples of the world have the right to live in peace, free from fear and want” ( from the Preamble of the Constitution of Japan).

Contact: Michiji Konuma (member; Secretary General)

200-9 Kudencho, Sakaeku, Yokohama 247-0014 Japan

Fax: +81-(0)45-891-8386

e-mail: mkonuma254@m4.dion.ne.jp

URL: http://worldpeace7.jp

We, the Committee of Seven for Appeals on the World Peace calls upon the G8 Leaders who
gather at Toyako, Hokkaido in July 2008, to base their decisions on an accurate understanding about the
root causes of the problems under consideration in full awareness of the responsibility of the industrially
advanced nations towards the international community.

The world is now undergoing a deep crisis. The inflating price of crude oil and food create serious
human insecurity, and the economic and social gaps continues to widen. All these trends cause domestic
social unrest and a danger of military conflicts.

In order to remove such worldwide insecurity, democratic and just international relations should be
developed among States with a constructive cooperation of the civil society. In this process the
industrialized nations have a particularly important role to play. We propose the following
recommendations so that your deliberation could lead to constructive conclusions about the protection of
the global environment, the regulation of international finance, the international promotion of human
rights, and the abolition of nuclear weapons.

1) Environment measures taking into consideration the points of view of the vulnerable peoples

We welcome the inclusion in the Summit agenda of efforts to cope with global warming. The G8
Governments representing the powerful sector of the world community, also in terms of environment
protection, have a particular responsibility towards the international community to take into consideration
the points of view of the vulnerable peoples.

We find it unfortunate in this connection that the Summit agenda puts an emphasis on targets and
solutions only of technical issues such as CO2 reduction, and does not seem to realize the importance of
the impacts of global economy which affects all the aspects of the global ecology.

For example, Japan, the host government of the Summit, proposes to deliberate on the inseparable
connections between the problems of global warming and of food. We appreciate this concern, but cannot
overlook the fact that the proposition centers on the development of high-yield food grains and transfer of
technology to the developing countries. This emphasis on technical solutions should not divert the
deliberation from the speculative money game which causes the inflating prices of crude oil and grains.
The problem of bio-fuel which endangers food supply of the poor sectors of the societies deserves also
special attention.

We recognize the intention of the Summit to get the support of the developing countries by
stressing the compatibility between environment protection and economic development. However, the
media reports that the deliberation with the developing nations preparing the Summit focused mainly on
matters related to technology transfer to the developing countries. It is indispensable to take into
consideration the fact that the poor sector of the developing regions, the minorities and the indigenous
peoples, and among them especially women and children, are already made victims by the calamities
caused by global warming and will increasingly be affected by these trends. We recommend that the
Summit should develop a serious discussion on how to support those vulnerable peoples trying to
overcome their socio-economic vulnerability, and the international civil society efforts to build, together
with them, an international system for the prevention of natural calamities caused by global warming.

We recognize the fact that the barter of CO2 emission rights has a certain effect for environment
protection, but we wish to draw the attention of the Summit to the financial danger which may face the
developing countries by the flow of speculative money accompanying these transactions.

2) Opposing the human rights violations accompanying the War “on Terror”.

We are deeply concerned by the Summit deliberation about preventing measures against terrorism
and internationally organized crime. The War “on Terror” gives priority to punishment and elimination,
surveillance and suppression of terrorists rather than to the elimination of the socio-cultural,
economic-political root causes of terrorism. This over-emphasis on the military and police measures
which only react to immediate threats is a serious matter of concern we cannot avoid to mention.

Nowadays, a global surveillance system covers from street-corners to the outer-space. The camps
to question secretly terrorist suspects, as well as camps to intern refugees and “illegal” migrants,
generated by global rich-poor gaps, are established on the border regions between the rich North and the
poor South. A new “Iron Curtain” seems to have appeared. An over-emphasis on the security of the
industrial regions results in measures increasing the insecurity and the despair among the impoverished
sectors of the developing countries. These measures combined with the growing rich-poor gaps, in both
North and South, increase social unrest and may become a source for terrorism and criminality.

We strongly urge the Summit to overcome the idea of a War “on Terror” and rather aim at
building a world where all peoples could live in peace. We hope that the G8 Leaders recognize their
responsibility in this global endeavor.

3) We call for the Nuclear Weapon Countries to implement Nuclear Disarmament.

We are seriously concerned that the nuclear weapon countries do not deny the possible use of their
nuclear weapons. If nuclear weapons will be used in any circumstances it will be the greatest mass
destruction of environment in all human history. In this sense we support, with no reservation, nuclear
non-proliferation which will be discussed at the coming Summit.

However measures only on the non-proliferation are not enough. The borders between peaceful
use and the military use of nuclear powers are mixed up and vague in these days. It is impossible to
accomplish a thorough nuclear weapon non-proliferation as far as any countries continue to possess
nuclear weapons as a security measure, or to admit the nuclear missile bases in their territories, or to
depend on nuclear umbrellas.

We urge that all leaders of the Group of Eight should acknowledge the undertaking on effective
measures relating to nuclear disarmament and the other measures stipulated in the Article VI of the NPT
and they should adopt a clear working program for this purpose and execute it as quickly as possible..
We urge that the G8 leaders should support actively a proposal by Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of
Australia, to establish an International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
announced on 9th June 2008 in Kyoto, and the Group of Eight countries should cooperate with the
Commission.

Footnote 1. The Article VI (Full Text)　of the NPT　(Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear
Weapons)

Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures
relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty
on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.

Footnote 2 The Proposal of Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia

Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia, Proposed to establish an International Commission
on Nuclear Non ?Proliferation and Disarmament, on 9th June 2008 in Kyoto, Japan. It was his
second day and the second city of his official visit to Japan. He visited first Hiroshima In his
speech he mentioned that the Commission will re-examine the Canberra Commission and the Tokyo
Forum reports to see how far we have come, how much work remains, and develop a possible plan
of action for the future.

The Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons was established as an
independent commission by the then Australian Government in November 1995 to propose practical
steps towards a nuclear weapon free world including the related problem of maintaining stability
and security during the transitioned period and after the goal is achieved. Their detailed report was
published in August 1996.

The Tokyo Forum on Nuclear non-Proliferation and Disarmament was established by the
initiative of the Japanese Government in 1998. The experts from 18 countries concluded the
final report including 17 proposals in July 1999.

Contact: Michiji Konuma (member; Secretary General)

200-9 Kudencho, Sakaeku, Yokohama 247-0014 Japan

Fax: +81-(0)45-891-8386

e-mail: mkonuma254@m4.dion.ne.jp

URL: http://worldpeace7.jp

An Appeal to Require Japanese Diet to Reconsider The Proposed Fundamental Law on Outer Space

We, the committee Seven for the Appeals on the World Peace have big fears that the bill for Outer Space Basic Law which was introduced to the Diet on June 20th 2007 and has been under deliberation in the Diet since it was assembled on Sep 10th 2007.

This includes the contents which will be related to the first step to account outer space the place where militarily used. And we strongly oppose the urgent legislation of the basic law.

Human beings have been trying to understand the mystery of outer space by means of various types of artificial satellites and investigating rockets and have been reflecting upon the ways of our living by looking back the Earth from outer space.

We can say that outer space has been the place of eternal longing and self-awareness which arouses our imagination and philosophical consideration.

On the other hand, outer space also is unfortunately the place where many missiles and military satellites are passing, on the pretext of security, It means one romantic exsistence gifted for human beings is militarily used.

But in Japan , despite this situation in 1969 the ordinary session of the House of Representatives stated the purpose of the exploration and the use of outer space by unanimous resolution. According to the resolution the exploration and the use of outer space should be carried on ‘strictly for peaceful purposes with improvement of peoples’ quality of lives and social welfare , contributing the progress of industrial technology’, followed by the another unanimous resolution on the House of Councilors that the exprolation and the use of outer space should be carried on ‘ strictly for the peaceful purposes and under the basic principles of <independence, democracy, open to public and international co-operation>’. It was the nation of Japan that declared that it would use outer space only for the purpose of disarmament.

We can say this statement means the honorable purpose and principle appealing ideal to all over the world taking the initiative in assuring the essential spirit of Outer Space Treaty in 1967, in whose preamble ‘recognizing the commom interest of all mankind in the progress of the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes’ ‘believing that the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes ‘ ‘believing that the exploration and use of outer space should be carried on for the benefit of all peoples irrespective of the degree of their economic or scientific development and convinced’.

But now we’re afraid that the introduction of this bill in 2007 is promoting the legislation of the Outer Space Basic Law which includes the contents ‘The exploration of outer space should be carried on…to support national security ‘without the word of ‘disarmament’,synchlonizing the tendency of emphasizing risk control and national security,
In addition, this bill says, ‘We’ll take necessary measures for the appropriate information control where in we can easily realize the intention of the exploration of outer space secretly abolishing the principle to disclose to the public.

If the bill was passed, it would be possible for the Self-Defense Forces to obtain and use their special previous warning satellites, military correspondence satellites and radio interception satellites . And then the risk of transforming the exploration of outer space into militarization under the name of self-defense　will be bigger.We must not forget that strengthening military power and attacking power interact to each other and will be related to expanding militarization like two side of one sword.

Once we admit this trend, the situation might be very critical because the establishment of military and industry complex will be produced with classified issues and the function of the nation will be mislead..

In addition, strengthening information control will be against the growth of well-balanced industry that is concerned with the development of international competitive power.

And in this bill the word of ‘progress of science ‘ used to be in the resolution on the House of Representatives in 1968 is deleted from general provision and alternated __expression of ‘increase of our nation’s benefit’ is referred no less than three times.

It means the apparent intention to use outer space for the nation’s interests not to mention that the exploration and use of outer space are based on the progress of science. This might lead to derogation of Japan.

In addition ,we dare to say that both of the contentes and expressions of this bill are tactless and immature because of the stereotyped words such as ‘outer space exploration ‘ for 23times and ‘we must~’ for 7 times.

We think that Japan should concentrate on carrying in the exploration and use of outer space with the slogan of ‘disarmament’ and continue giving people dreams and romantic images and it must be the way for a real peaceful nation to be pursued.

And we call on the legislation of the Outer Space Basic Law based on the unanimous resolution on the Diet in 1967 recalling the first ideal slogan.