A total of 2023 people participated in the 9,900 World Conference to Ban Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, including online participants.

In the summer of the 78th anniversary of the American field drop, the world championships were held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki from August 8th to 4th. The theme is "Working with atomic bomb survivors to create a peaceful and just world free of nuclear weapons - for the future of humanity and the earth." Japan's movement to ban atomic and hydrogen bombs began with the hydrogen bomb test "Bravo" conducted by the United States on March 8, 1954 at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Ashes from the hydrogen bomb test, which was 3 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, fell on Japanese and other tuna fishing boats operating in and around the Marshall Islands. When the damage caused by the experiment, including the Daigo Fukuryu Maru, which had its home port at Yaizu Port, became widely known, a protest movement broke out across the country, and a signature campaign that sprung up spontaneously spread greatly, and was formed by the National Council of Signature Campaigns. As a result, the ``World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs'' was held. Since then, it has been held every year and continues to this day, and the movement to ban atomic and hydrogen bombs, which is a widespread movement among the people, has made a major contribution to the realization of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
This year's Nagasaki World Championships was affected by Typhoon No. 6, and an unexpected event occurred that forced the Nagasaki Day rally on the 9th to be held earlier than the 8th. The face-to-face world conference was attended by many young people from the next generation, and created a great excitement to envision a future free of nuclear weapons.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and threat of the use of nuclear weapons, the strengthening of NATO's nuclear posture led by the United States using these pretexts, and the new Hiroshima Vision that justifies the "nuclear deterrence" theory issued at the G7 Hiroshima Summit. The world championships were held under the threat of ``nuclear use,'' and the participants included Setsuko Thurlow, an atomic bomb survivor living in Canada, atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Korean atomic bomb survivors, victims of American hydrogen bomb tests, and atomic bomb survivors from the Marshall Islands. He angrily criticized the "nuclear deterrence" theory.
At the conference, together with representatives of the world's anti-nuclear peace movement, were UN Under-Secretary-General Izumi Nakamitsu, Austria, which hosted the first Conference of the Parties to the Convention last year, and Mexico, which will host the second Conference of the Parties from November this year. , government representatives from Malaysia of the Non-Aligned Movement participated.
At the same time, the World Congress showed a major trend in the world moving forward with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as its strength, and at the same time, it greatly advanced public opinion and movement for both A-bomb survivors, and a domestic opinion poll showed that 7% of the public said that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons should join the Treaty. In response to these voices, we have decided to call on the government of Japan, the atomic bombing country, to join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and take the lead in eliminating nuclear weapons.