A-bomb survivors, cities urge Japan to ratify U.N. nuke ban treaty

Atomic bomb survivors and anti-nuclear activists urged Japan on Sunday to ratify a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons, saying Tokyo should take the lead in achieving a world free of such weapons.Speaking in an online event, Setsuko Thurlow, a Canada-based atomic bomb survivor and peace advocate, criticized Japan's reservations about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons under former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who stepped down last month after nearly eight years in power. "I would like Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to see the reality in a flexible way without doing the same thing…READ FULL ARTICLE