Speakers

Dr. Arun Gandhi

Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi

Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. D. university professor living in the United States. Socio-political activist. He founded the M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. As co-founders of the institute, both husband and wife received the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award “for bringing the legacy of Gandhi to America”

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https://www.arungandhi.net/
YouTube : ガンジー（「非暴力、不服従」を貫いたインド独立の父。）

Dr. Bernice A King

Daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., lawer, minister

She is a daughter of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr.. Dr. Bernice A. King is a global thought leader, orator, peace advocate, and CEO of the King Center, which was founded by her mother, Coretta Scott King. She was 17 when she was invited to speak at the United Nations. Dr. King promotes Nonviolence 365, father’s nonviolent philosophy and methodology, as the answer to society’s problems.

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https://thekingcenter.org/
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Son of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of President John F. Kennedyenvironmental lawyer, author

He is the son of former New York senator and U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy. He is an attorney and environmental activist. He is a co-founder and President of Waterkeeper Alliance, an environmental protection organization focused on the preservation and conservation of water resources. In addition to writing on environmental issues for numerous publications, he currently serves as senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Yukio Hatoyama

Former Prime Minister of Japan

The 93rd Prime Minister of Japan. During his tenure, he advocated the concept of an East Asian Community with Japan, China, and South Korea at its core, based on the principle of fraternal politics, for the purpose of building peace. After his retirement, he established the Institute for East Asian Community Studies and has been working internationally to build a shared understanding of history, develop friendship between the two countries, and make Asia an “unbreakable community. He also established the Ryukyu-Okinawa Center in Okinawa, and participated in the campaign against the new Henoko base, and continues to take action under the banner of making Okinawa “the keystone of peace instead of the keystone of military.

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https://www.hatoyama.gr.jp/
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Kim Fuller

Niece of Jimmy Carter

Niece of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States. She is the CEO of Friends of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, one of the few politicians in the U.S. who has officially declared his support for Palestine. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. For many years Ms. Fuller studied with Jimmy Carter in his Sunday School. Eventually, she became his substitute, and when he retired, she took over.

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https://www.friendsofthejimmycarternationalhistoricsite.org/
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Dolkun Isa

Chairman of the World Uyghur Congress

Born in East Turkistan. Due to the risk of being detained by the Chinese Communist Party, he defected to Europe. Now he is a citizen of Germany, and he is spreading highlighting Uyghur issues to the world.

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https://www.uyghurcongress.org/en/
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Clifton Truman Daniel

Grandchild of former President Truman

He is the oldest grandson of Harry S. Truman, the US president who authorized the use of nuclear weapons at the end of the Second World War. He and his family came to Japan in 2012 at the invitation of Hiroshima survivor Masahiro Sasaki. They attended the memorial ceremonies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and met with more than two dozen other survivors. Mr. Daniel has been involved with various peace activities ever since.

Reference：
https://laji.us/
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Hidetoshi Tojo

Greate Grandson of Former prime Minister during WW II

Great-grandson of Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan at the time of World War II. While struggling with his own way of being, he learned how to be true to himself through his experience of working overseas. Representative Director of International Culture Promotion Associatioin. Expert on Japanese shinto culture.

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https://tojo-hidetoshi.jp/
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Dr. Tru Muhammet

Japan Uyghur Union President
Doctor of agriculture

He studied at Kyushu University in 1994, and became a doctor of agriculture in 1999.
Since 1997, he has been working to inform the world about the reality of the persecution of Uyghurs by the Chinese Communist Party at the risk of his own life including his family. In Japan, he holds lectures and contributes to newspapers and magazines to report the reality of China’s colonial rule and Uyghur genocide.

Reference：https://www.uyghur-japan.org/
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Rita Mestokosho

Canada Native

She is an Indigenous Canadian human rights activist She is also a poetry recitation performer. She is a spokesperson for the recognition of the Innu language and the development of Innu culture and heritage. Born in the small village of Ekuanitshit in Mingan, she was raised in the forest by hunter-gatherer parents and grandparents to keep Innu tradition before studying political science at the University of Quebec. She participated in the creation of the Inu mitshuap uteitun, a cultural home for the Inu people, and continues to work as its coordinator.

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Shahar Perets

Army refuser in Israel

“I don’t want to be part of the persecution of Israeli occupied Palestine. So says a 19-year-old woman who refuses to serve in the Israeli army. She has been repeatedly sentenced to prison for violating her military service obligations.

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Janna Jihad

Journalist of Palestine teenager

As the world’s youngest journalist, she has been reporting on the realities of Israeli-occupied Palestine since she was seven years old, and has 42,000 followers on social networking sites. She visited the Vatican with the Earth Caravan (2019). As a symbol of the abolition of nuclear weapons and violence, he will ask the (she asked the) Pope to blow out the remaining flames of the atomic bomb.

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Special thanks to

Francesco

Pope of Rome

He is the 266th Pope, visited Palestine and Israel in 2014, called for peace and appealed for interfaith peace, and blew out the “fire of peace” left over from the atomic bombing brought by the Earth Caravan in 2019 as a symbol of all conflicts and weapons so that the same thing will never happen again. For the first time in 38 years, we will hold Masses in Japan to call for nuclear abolition in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The fire of hope was lit at the masses in Nagasaki and Tokyo.

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Setsuko Thurlow

Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, anti-nuclear activist

She was exposed to the atomic bombing in Hiroshima at the age of 13. Lives in Toronto, Canada. She has spoken out for the abolition of nuclear weapons in Japan, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Her speeches have influenced many world representatives; she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with the Executive Director of I CAN; she will have an audience with the Pope in 2019 with the Earth Caravan.

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Soma Suzuki

Ann Suzuki

Taiki Icchoki

Yuki Icchoki

Rohingya support

A group of elementary and middle school students living in the locality where the Rohingya people live have risen up to support the Rohingya refugees!　And their crowdfunding has raised a whopping 3 million yen, far exceeding their goal.

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https://bokutachidekirukot.wixsite.com/bokutachi-dekirukoto
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