MIZOBE Yasuo    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Global Japanese Studies    Position   Professor
Language	English
Publication Date	2018/03
Type	Bulletin of Universities and Institutes
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Title	An Overview of Japanese-African Relations and the 1960s Campaigns against the Atomic Bomb: Based on an Analysis of the 1962 Accra Assembly of the World Without the Bomb
Contribution Type	Sole-authored
Journal	Global Japanese Studies Review
Journal Type	Japan
Volume, Issue, Page	10(1),pp.55-70
Details	In June 1962, a week-long international conference titled 'The World Without the Bomb' was convened in Accra, Ghana, attracting approximately 130 participants, mainly from the Non- Aligned Countries, who discussed the issues of disarmament and denuclearisation. Among the convention attendees were three Japanese: Shinzo Hamai, the then mayor of Hiroshima City; Ichiro Moritaki, a professor at the Hiroshima University and a leader of the anti-atomic and hydrogen bomb movement and Tomi Kora, a leading female activist and a former member of the House of Councilors. Through an examination of official documents, press reports and private papers collected in Japan, Ghana, Kenya and Britain, this study analyses how the anti- nuclear arms conference held in Ghana impacted campaigns against atomic and hydrogen bombs in Japan as well as how Japan, as a victim of nuclear bombing, influenced disarmament and denuclearisation movements in Africa in the early 1960s.