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National Day of Struggle for Peace or Bikini Day in Japan

National Day of Struggle for Peace or Bikini Day in Japan is held on March 1. This event in the first decade of the month March is annual. Help us Help us 
1 March - National Day of Struggle for Peace or Bikini Day in Japan
Bikini Day events to give a boost to movements for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
Bikini Day-related events take place every year to heighten public awareness and increase the movement for a total ban of nuclear weapons throughout the world, carrying on the nationwide anti-nuclear movement triggered by the Japanese fishing boat being showered with radioactive fall-out from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test explosion at Bikini Atoll in 1954.
The Bikini Day gatherings will be held from February 27 to March 1 in Shizuoka Prefecture in order to commemorate the tragedy, and renew participants' determination to abolish nuclear weapons by heightening public awareness.
The Bikini tragedy came as a very shocking incident to Japanese people. By the end of the same year, 34 million people, or more than half of the eligible Japanese voters, signed the petition calling for atomic and hydrogen bombs to be banned. This movement developed into the 1st World Conference against A & H Bombs in August 1955, which led to the establishment of the Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) and the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bombs Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo).

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