Dear Friends,
 
I am sending you once more my message sent to you two years ago.
Its contents deserve renewed attention in view of the emerging new outlook for nuclear industries.
The monthly magazine”Sekai” of July 2019 has published an article entitled “the End of nuclear industries”
written by an eminent specialist Mr. Mycle Sheneider.
Former American NRC Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko has stated recently in his Washington Post interview that he prefers saving the Earth than agonizing nuclear industries, and that the nuclear reactors should be banned.
 
On May 10, a serious nuclear accident happened in Yonggwang, Korea. The reactor was poorly managed. It narrowly escaped a “melt down”. One wonders why this accident that could have been as damaging as Fukushima is little reported. The ”Nuclear taboo” seems to persist.
 
The Korean accident has warned the world that 440 nuclear reactors existing in the world could all be dangerous.
We are reminded that denuclearization, both military and civil, should be universal. The historic mission of Japan is no longer a vision, but an actual duty.
 
Please allow me to count on your understanding and support.
 
Mitsuhei Murata
Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 10:42 PM

 
Dear Friends,
 
I am sending you the “Bazel Declaration on human rights and trans-generational crimes resulting from nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
It is a historic first step toward true denuclearization”.
Suffice it to cite its two proposals to grasp the historic significance of the Declaration.
 
“The employment of nuclear weapons, as well as indiscriminate damage to health and to the environment resulting from other nuclear activities, should be included as a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. We also call for amendment of the Rome Statute to include the crime of ecocide.”
 
“The 28 May 1959 agreement between the World Health organization and the IAEA, which leads to conflict of interest and limits the free information on health consequences of nuclear civil use, must be abolished.”
 
This declaration will help to revive the legitimate efforts explained in the attached Joint Statement, calling for the reform of the IAEA. It has been supported by Former President of the Swiss Confederation Moritz Leuenberger and Former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa.
 
It will be a decisive response to the warning that “ the fate of the world will be decided by electric companies”.
The destructive power of nuclear energy in all directions— global environment, states, organizations, individuals—
Is being increasingly recognized and witnessed.
Civil society is consoled and encouraged by the law of history(the will of heavens and the earth) that ends all dictatorships.
 
With warmest and highest regards,
Mitsuhei　Murata
Former Ambassador to Switzerland


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