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Hiroshima marks 62nd anniversary of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba reads out his Peace Declaration during a ceremony to mark the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city toward the end of World War II at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.

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Ex-Hiroshima mayor receives German peace award

BERLIN, Germany - Former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) receives the 2013 Otto Hahn Peace Medal, a prominent German honor, from the United Nations Association of Germany at a ceremony in Berlin on April 16, 2013, for his ongoing efforts to abolish nuclear weapons,

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Ex-Hiroshima mayor

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba. The United Nations Association of Germany said on Nov. 27, 2012, that Akiba will receive the 2013 Otto Hahn Peace Medal, a prominent German honor, for his continued calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons and promotion of peace while he was a mayor.

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Hibakusha, ex-Hiroshima mayor awarded by NPO

LOS ANGELES, United States - Former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) and Shigeko Sasamori (L), a victim of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing, pose for photos in Santa Barbara, California on Oct. 9, 2011, after receiving the Peace Leadership award and the World Citizenship award, respectively, from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, a California-based nonprofit group, for their efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.

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Kenyan Nobel Prize winner Maathai dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai (front L) visiting the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan, escorted by then Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, in February 2010. Maathai died at the age of 71 on Sept. 25, 2011, at a hospital in Nairobi while undergoing treatment for cancer, according to her organization the Green Belt Movement.

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A-bomb exhibition in Nepal

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) explains a display panel to visitors at a photo exhibition on the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Tribhuvan University in the suburbs of Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 18, 2011. Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav conferred the inaugural Gautam Buddha International Peace Award on Taue and former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba in recognition of their role as leaders of the global Mayors for Peace movement.

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Ex-Hiroshima mayor receives peace award in Nepal

LUMBINI, Nepal - Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav (L) hands the inaugural Gautam Buddha International Peace Award to former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba during a ceremony in Lumbini, Buddha's birthplace in southern Nepal, on May 17, 2011. Akiba received the award together with Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue in recognition of the role they played as leaders of the global Mayors for Peace movement. The two cities were devastated by atomic bombs during World War II.

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Nagasaki mayor receives peace award in Nepal

LUMBINI, Nepal - Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav (R) hands the inaugural Gautam Buddha International Peace Award to Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue during a ceremony in Lumbini, Buddha's birthplace in southern Nepal, on May 17, 2011. Taue received the award together with former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba in recognition of the role they played as leaders of the global Mayors for Peace movement. The two cities were devastated by atomic bombs during World War II.

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba not to seek 4th term

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (C) attends a New Year party in Hiroshima on Jan. 4, 2011. The 68-year-old advocate of global nuclear disarmament said he will not seek a fourth term in the mayoral election slated for April 10.

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba not to seek 4th term

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (C) attends a New Year party in Hiroshima on Jan. 4, 2011. The 68-year-old advocate of global nuclear disarmament said he will not seek a fourth term in the mayoral election slated for April 10.

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba not to seek 4th term

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba. The 68-year-old advocate of global nuclear disarmament said Jan. 4, 2011, that he will not run for his fourth term in the mayoral election slated for April 10.

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Hiroshima Mayor receives Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) chats with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III during a ceremony for the Ramon Magsaysay Award in Manila on Aug. 31, 2010. Akiba received the prestigious award for his role in the global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima Mayor receives Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba delivers a speech during a ceremony for the Ramon Magsaysay Award in Manila on Aug. 31, 2010. Akiba received the prestigious award for his role in the global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima Mayor receives Magsaysay Award

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) receives a medal for the Ramon Magsaysay Award from Philippine President Benigno Aquino III in Manila on Aug. 31, 2010. Akiba received the prestigious award for his role in the global campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima mayor at Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba delivers a speech at the head office of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in Manila on Aug. 26, 2010. Akiba, one of the winners of the annual award, called for action to abolish nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima mayor at Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

MANILA, Philippines - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba delivers a speech at the head office of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in Manila on Aug. 26, 2010. Akiba, one of the winners of the annual award, called for action to abolish nuclear weapons.

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U.N. chief Ban in Hiroshima for A-bomb ceremony

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C, front) poses with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) and high school students at Funairi High School in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2010. Ban urged the teenagers to work hard for achieving a world free of nuclear weapons after attending a ceremony the same day to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.

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Hiroshima 65th A-bomb anniversary

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) dedicates a list of victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing to a cenotaph during a ceremony at the Peace Memorial Park in the city on Aug. 6, 2010. The list contained the names of 5,501 people newly recognized in the past year as victims of the bombing.

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U.N. chief Ban in Hiroshima for A-bomb ceremony

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (C) views an exhibit at the city's Peace Memorial Museum with Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) and Steven Leeper (R), the head of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, on Aug. 6, 2010. Ban attended a ceremony the same day to mark the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.

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Hiroshima Peace Declaration

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba presents the Hiroshima Peace Declaration during a ceremony on Aug. 6, 2010, to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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U.S. envoy in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (R) shakes hands with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) as they attend a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6, 2010. Roos became the first U.S. representative to take part in the event.

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Hiroshima mayor wins Ramon Magsaysay Award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hiroshima City Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, who was announced as one of the recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay awards, known as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize, on Aug. 2, 2010.

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Hiroshima to urge Japan to withdraw from U.S. nuclear umbrella

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba unveils in Hiroshima on Aug. 2, 2010, an outline of the peace declaration he will deliver in an upcoming annual ceremony to commemorate the 1945 atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6.

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Hiroshima's call for nuke-free world

NEW YORK, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba speaks at a session of the U.N. conference on reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York on May 7, 2010. Akiba called for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons within the lifetime of the hibakusha atomic-bomb survivors, whose average age is now over 75.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors seek nuclear-free world

NEW YORK, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue speak to reporters after delivering speeches at a session of the U.N. conference on reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York on May 7, 2010.

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Japanese A-bomb survivors, mayors march for nuke-free world

NEW YORK, United States - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) and Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba join a march from Times Square in downtown New York to the U.N. headquarters calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons on May 2, 2010, a day before the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.

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Hiroshima assembly kills budget for 2020 Olympics bid

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (C) watches members of the Hiroshima City Council stand to approve a motion to omit a 25.69 million yen request for formulating a basic bid plan for the 2020 Summer Olympics from the city's fiscal 2010 budget bill during a plenary session on March 26, 2010.

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Hiroshima assembly rejects 2020 Olympic budget

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba attends a special committee of the city assembly on March 25, 2010. The committee rejected a city office-proposed budget for its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

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Hiroshima assembly rejects budgets for 2020 Olympics bid

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba attends a special committee of the City Council on March 25, 2010. The committee rejected city office budgets for its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

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Palestinian President Abbas visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R), accompanied by Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, visits the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Feb. 7, 2010. Abbas arrived in Japan earlier in the day for a four-day visit.

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Obama shows willingness to visit Hiroshima: Akiba

WASHINGTON, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba speaks at a news conference in Washington on Jan. 21, 2010, after meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House with around 230 members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Akiba said Obama showed willingness to visit the atomic-bombed city during the meeting.

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Hiroshima mayor says popular will decisive for nuke-free world

WASHINGTON, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba speaks at a reception of the U.S. Conference of Mayors 2010 in Washington on Jan. 20, 2010. He said that the will of the people will be a decisive factor in realizing a nuclear-free world, as called for by U.S. President Barack Obama last year.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors to ask IOC to accept joint bid

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba speaks to reporters in Hiroshima on Jan. 8, 2010, concerning the city's bid to co-host the 2020 Summer Olympics with Nagasaki. Akiba expressed willingness to try to persuade the International Olympic Committee to accept a joint bid, even though the Japanese Olympic Committee has already turned down the idea.

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JOC chief rejects joint Olympic bid by Hiroshima, Nagasaki

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda (R) talks with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (2nd from L) in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2009. Takeda rejected the possibility of Hiroshima and Nagasaki co-hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, saying the JOC is not in a position to go against the Olympic Charter, which stipulates that only one city can host the Olympics.

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JOC chief rejects joint Olympic bid by Hiroshima, Nagasaki

TOKYO, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) and Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba speak to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2009, after meeting with Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda. Takeda rejected the possibility of Hiroshima and Nagasaki co-hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics, saying the JOC is not in a position to go against the Olympic Charter, which stipulates that only one city can host the Olympics.

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Okada meets with Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue are photographed prior to their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2009. The mayors urged Okada to encourage many countries to adopt a proposed protocol on abolition of nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki declare 2020 Olympics bid

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue speak during a press conference at the Hiroshima city government office on Oct. 11, 2009. The mayors of Japan's two atomic-bombed cities expressed their desire to jointly host the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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U.S. Ambassador Roos visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos (C) and Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) pray for the victims of the atomic bombing at the Memorial Cenotaph for A-Bomb Victims at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Oct. 4, 2009.

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Hiroshima marks 64th anniversary of 1945 U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba reads the Peace Declaration at a ceremony marking the 64th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing at Peace Memorial Park on Aug. 6.

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Hiroshima mayor to seek support for Obama nuclear initiative

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba speaks at a press conference at the city office on Aug. 3. Akiba said he will express support for U.S. President Barack Obama's call for a nuclear-free world in a peace declaration on the anniversary of the atomic bombing on Aug. 6.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki urge U.S. efforts for nuke disarmament

WASHINGTON, the United States - (From L to R) Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, Eliot Kang, acting assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation at the U.S. State Department, and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue pose for photographers in front of the State Department on May 8 after a meeting on nuclear nonproliferation.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors back Obama's nuclear-free commitment

NEW YORK, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba shows a paper crane, while delivering a speech during a session of the preparatory committee of the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York on May 5, as Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (back, center) looks on. Akiba told the story of a Hiroshima atomic-bomb survivor Sadako Sasaki, who died at the age of 12 from radiation-caused leukemia after the U.S. nuclear attack in 1945. He said the paper crane in his hand was one that she made hoping for an early recovery.

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Hiroshima marks 63rd anniversary of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba reads a Peace Declaration during a memorial service marking the 63rd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing during World War II at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Aug. 6.

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Che Guevara's daughter visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Aleida Guevara (L), the eldest daughter of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, shakes hands with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba at the Hiroshima municipal office on May 15. Earlier in the day, Guevara offered flowers at a monument for atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima.

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Swiss VP Couchepin meets with Hiroshima mayor

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (R) meets with Swiss Vice President Pascal Couchepin at his office on July 13. They agreed to promote efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.

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Hiroshima mayor denounces nukes at Vienna forum

VIENNA, Austria - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba addresses a conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in Vienna on May 2 and repeated a call for the abolition of nuclear weapons, quoting words of the slain Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito.

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba assured of reelection

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, joined by his supporters, celebrates at his election office after being reelected in the poll on April 8.

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Hiroshima Mayor Akiba declares reelection bid

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba speaks at a news conference in Hiroshima on Feb. 22 about his intention to seek a third four-year term in the April 8 mayoral election.

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Hiroshima marks 61st anniversary of atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba reads a Peace Declaration as the city marks the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Aug. 6. Akiba called on all nations to ''faithfully'' engage in nuclear disarmament negotiations.

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Akiba to call for global movement toward nuke-free world

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, at the city office on Aug. 2, briefs reporters on the gist of the Peace Declaration he will read out on Aug. 6 at a ceremony marking the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.