Japanese students call for nuclear abolition in Geneva

Japanese student peace ambassadors on Monday called for the abolition of nuclear weapons at a government reception in Geneva.The 20 high school student ambassadors shared stories of the victims of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 in World War II in front of about 60 foreign diplomats at the event organized by the Japanese delegation to the Conference on Disarmament.Sawa Yamanishi, a 17-year-old from Nagasaki Prefecture, said in a speech in English that her grandmother, who survived the Nagasaki bombing but lost friends, expressed hope of not letting others endure s…READ FULL ARTICLE