On October 4, 2021, Fumio Kishida was inaugurated as the 100th Prime Minister of Japan, succeeding Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. In response, Beatrice Finn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the NGO that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017, sent a letter to Prime Minister Kishida calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The letter includes a request to participate in the Nuclear Weapons Convention (NWC) conference scheduled to be held next March. Although Japan is the only country to have experienced atomic bombings, it has not yet signed the NWC. President Mr. Kishida, whose grandfather and father were both born in Hiroshima Prefecture, so has often appealed to the public for the necessity of Nuclear Disarmament.

　　How long will Japan and the world have to live with the fear of nuclear weapons? Seventy-five years have passed since the atomic bombings, and the world has experienced the Cold War, in which the balance of power between East and West was discussed as if nuclear weapons were the key to maintaining world peace. In the meantime, however, the world has been flooded with an estimated 15,000 or 20,000 nuclear bombs.

　　Looking back on history, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not the only places where nuclear bombs were dropped. Before the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, the world's first plutonium-enriched nuclear test, the Manhattan Project Trinity Test, was conducted in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. With this test, the human race opened a Pandora's box that should never be opened. Shortly thereafter, the atomic bombs were dropped on Nagasaki just 21 days later, and on Hiroshima 24 days later. Since then, more than 2,000 nuclear tests have been conducted around the world, and humanity has been unable to turn back the clock.

　　Will President Biden be able to follow in the footsteps of Barack Obama, who advocated a "world without nuclear weapons"? Abraham Maslow said, "It is all right to regret the past and to worry about the future, but only now can we act. The world is now watching the nuclear disarmament policy of Japan's new prime minister from Hiroshima Prefecture.