核なき世界へ「思い刻む」　坪井さん死去で弔意―岸田首相

　岸田文雄首相は２７日夜、日本原水爆被害者団体協議会の代表委員坪井直さんが亡くなったことを受け、「誠に寂しい限りだ」と弔意を示した。その上で「被爆地出身の首相として、核兵器のない世界の実現に向け、坪井さんの思いを胸に刻みながら前に進んでいく覚悟だ」と強調した。首相官邸で記者団の質問に答えた。
　坪井さんが日本の参加を求めた核兵器禁止条約に関しては「核兵器国を核兵器のない世界という大きな目標に動かしていくため、唯一の戦争被爆国として具体的に行動し責任を果たしたい」と述べるにとどめた。（2021/10/27-22:52）

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a Twitter post Wednesday mourned the death of Sunao Tsuboi, leader of a Japanese group of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors.
   "I pay my heartfelt tribute to Tsuboi. We are determined to move forward with his thoughts in our hearts," Kishida said.
   "Tsuboi cooperated and shared his opinions with us on many occasions in seeking a world without nuclear weapons," he added, noting that the co-chair of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, was in attendance when then U.S. President Barack Obama visited the atomic-bombed western Japan city of Hiroshima in May 2016.
   Hiroshima was flattened by a U.S. atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945, in the closing days of World War II.
   Tsuboi died of anemia-caused arrhythmia at a Hiroshima hospital Sunday at age 96.