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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors meet Japan PM Kishida

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R), Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pose for photo as they hold talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2023. The mayors of the two cities that suffered U.S. atomic bombings in 1945 asked Kishida to set up occasions for world leaders attending the upcoming summit of the Group of Seven nations in Hiroshima to visit A-bomb memorial museums in the cities or to talk with the victims on the sidelines of the summit.

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EU ambassador in Nagasaki

Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue on Feb. 3, 2023, asks Jean-Eric Paquet, the ambassador of the European Union to Japan, and EU member state ambassadors for support for nuclear abolition during their visit to the southwestern Japan city, which the United States hit with an atomic bomb in the final days of World War II.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue answer reporters' questions at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2013. They told U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy the same day that they are hoping that President Barack Obama will visit their cities, both of which were hit by U.S. atomic bombs in World War II.

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Nagasaki marks 62nd anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue reads out his Peace Declaration during a memorial ceremony held at Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9 to mark the 62nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city in 1945. He warned against holding discussions about whether Japan should possess nuclear arms and stressed the use of nuclear weapons should never be permitted.

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Nagasaki mayor unveils outline of peace declaration

NAGASAKI, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue unveils at a press conference on July 31, 2017, the outline of a peace declaration to be issued at the peace memorial ceremony on Aug. 9, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city. The declaration will urge the Japanese government to join the nuclear weapons ban treaty.

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Taue to seek re-election as Nagasaki mayor

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue, known for his nuclear weapon elimination initiative, announces his candidacy for a third term on Dec. 12, 2014, at the municipal government offices in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The mayoral election is scheduled for April 2015.

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Nagasaki holds 69th anniversary of atomic bombing

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue reads out the Peace Declaration at the Peace Park in the city on Aug. 9, 2014, during a ceremony marking the 69th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

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Daughter of U.S. commander Delnore in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (R) and Patricia Magee, daughter of U.S. Lt. Col. Victor Delnore who came to Nagasaki following the end of the Pacific War, stand by a reproduced street sign honoring her father on Aug. 8, 2014, the day before the Japanese city holds its annual atomic bomb memorial service. Delnore was highly regarded by citizens in Nagasaki for allowing the first peace memorial ceremony to be conducted in the city in 1948.

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Nagasaki mayor releases outline of peace declaration

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue releases on Aug. 1, 2014, at the city office the outline of a peace declaration to be issued on Aug. 9 to commemorate the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. He will touch on the subject of collective self-defense, calling on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government to note concerns voiced by many about departure from Japan's postwar pacifism.

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Nuke-free municipal group marks 30th anniversary

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue attend a meeting commemorating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the National Council of Japan Nuclear Free Local Authorities in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 2, 2014.

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Nagasaki mayor asks students in N.Y. to think whether nukes needed

NEW YORK, the United States - Tomihisa Taue, mayor of the atomic-bombed city of Nagasaki, gives a speech to high school students at the Japan Society in New York on April 29, 2014. He urged about 200 students from schools in the city and elsewhere including Japanese students in the United States to "think with your heart if the world really needs nuclear weapons."

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors meet U.N. chief

NEW YORK, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) shakes hands with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014. In the center is Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue.

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U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (2nd row, R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (2nd row, L) sit in at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors meet U.N. chief

NEW YORK, United States - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) are pictured with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014.

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Mayor introduces Nagasaki at UC Irvine

LOS ANGELES, United States - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue introduces Nagasaski, explaining about its history, traditional events and food culture, in addition to the U.S. atomic bombing of the city during World War II, at University of California, Irvine in southern California on April 26, 2014. The lecture was part of an exhibition entitled "Welcome to Nagasaki: Prefecture of International Exchange, World Class Heritage, and a Prayer for Peace," held by Southern California Nagasaki Prefectural Association, in partnership with the City of Nagasaki and Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Nagasaki youth mission to observe anti-nuke meeting in NY

NAGASAKI, Japan - The Nagasaki Youth Delegation, comprising eight female university students, poses with Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (3rd from rear R) at Nagasaki University in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on April 5, 2014, ahead of its departure for New York on April 28 to join U.S. and European student groups in observing an international nuclear nonproliferation meeting.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) walks toward a statue at the Peace Park in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, to offer flowers on Dec. 10, 2013. Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue is seen at her left.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (2nd from R) walks with Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (2nd from L) at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) is welcomed by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) is welcomed by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (C) at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. The ambassador was making her first trip to the southwestern Japanese city, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb in 1945, since taking up her post in the previous month.

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Oliver Stone in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. film director Oliver Stone visits Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum on Aug. 9, 2013, the 68th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city.

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Oliver Stone in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. film director Oliver Stone and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (R) shake hands at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum on Aug. 9, 2013, the 68th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwest Japan city.

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Nagasaki peace ceremony

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue reads a peace declaration during a ceremony in Nagasaki Peace Park on Aug. 9, 2013, to mark the 68th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwest Japan city.

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Nagasaki peace ceremony

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue reads a peace declaration during a ceremony in Nagasaki Peace Park on Aug. 9, 2013, to mark the 68th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwest Japan city.

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Nagasaki mayor

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue unveils the outline of the city's 2013 peace declaration during a press conference at the city hall in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on July 31, 2013.

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Preparatory committee for 2015 NPT review meeting

GENEVA, Switzerland - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (L) delivers a speech at the Second Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, in Geneva on April 24, 2013. In the center is Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue and at right is atomic bomb survivor Toshiki Fujimori.

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Hiroshima, Nagasaki mayors call for Obama to visit

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue answer reporters' questions in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2012, after meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos at the U.S. Embassy. They handed Roos a letter addressed to recently reelected U.S. President Barack Obama, calling for Obama to visit the cities that suffered atomic bombings in World War II.

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Nagasaki Mayor Taue at Nagasaki ceremony

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue reads out the Peace Declaration at a ceremony marking the 67th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki city at Peace Park in the southwestern Japanese city on Aug. 9, 2012.

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Hiroshima declares bid to host NPT review conference

VIENNA, Austria - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) speaks at a meeting in Vienna on May 4, 2012 sponsored by the Conference of Mayors for Peace. Matsui declared that the city devastated by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing will seek to host a review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2015, and appealed to representatives from other countries to support its bid. To the left is Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue.

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A-bomb exhibition begins at U.N. office at Geneva

GENEVA, Switzerland - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue cut the tape during the opening ceremony for a permanent exhibition on the 1945 atomic bombings of the two Japanese cities inside the United Nations Office in Geneva on Nov. 11, 2011.

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A-bomb exhibition begins at U.N. office at Geneva

GENEVA, Switzerland - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (L) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (R) are pictured at the site of a permanent exhibition on the 1945 atomic bombings of the two Japanese cities inside the United Nations Office in Geneva on Nov. 11, 2011, its opening day.

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Hiroshima gives up Olympic bid

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue answer reporters' questions after a meeting of a bidding committee held in Hiroshima on May 22, 2011, formally decided that the city of Hiroshima has given up its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics due to opposition from its citizens and a lack of funds.

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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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New Hiroshima mayor visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (L) hold a press conference in the Nagasaki city office on May 10, 2011. Matsui visited Nagasaki in southwestern Japan for the first time since being elected mayor of the western Japan city in April. The mayors of the two atomic-bombed cities agreed during their talks to deepen cooperation in efforts to realize a world free of nuclear weapons.

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Nagasaki mayor Taue reelected

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue smiles after being reelected in Nagasaki on April 24, 2011. Taue was effectively backed by the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party.

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Nagasaki 65th A-bomb anniversary

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue delivers a Peace Declaration at a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki at the southwestern Japan city's Peace Park on Aug. 9, 2010.

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U.N. chief in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L), flanked by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (R), waves to people during a visit to Nagasaki on Aug. 5, 2010. The city in southwestern Japan was the target of a U.S. atomic bomb on Aug. 9, 1945.

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Nagasaki's call for nuke-free world

NEW YORK, United States - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue speaks at a session of the U.N. conference on reviewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in New York on May 7, 2010. Taue called for a world without nuclear weapons, criticizing the nuclear powers for failing to listen to the voices of atomic-bomb survivors.

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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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Iran's Larijani visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani (C), accompanied by Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue (R), offers flowers at a monument set up at ground zero of the atomic explosion in the city on Feb. 27, 2010.

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Nagasaki gives up bid to host Olympics

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue speaks at a meeting of representatives of the city assembly at the municipal office in Nagasaki on Jan. 12, 2010. Taue told the meeting that the city has given up its bid to co-host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games with Hiroshima.

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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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Nagasaki mayor on anniv. of A-bomb attack

NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue reads out a peace declaration during a ceremony at Nagasaki Peace Park on Aug. 9 commemorating the 64th anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city. Taue called on people to seek a world free of nuclear weapons.

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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.