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From monthly paper "Hidankyo" - May 1998
All 81 Local Assemblies of Chiba Prefecture adopted non-nuclear declaration.
Since non-nuclear declaration of Narashino-city in 1982, local Hidankyo and cooperative organizations have made continuous efforts to ask every Assembly of villages, towns, cities and prefecture for adopting the declaration.
In 1995, the year of 50th commemoration of Hiroshima/Nagasaki A-bombings, Prefectural Assembly adopted the declaration.
It triggered other Assemblies adoption.
Finally, as a result of adoption of one left Assembly in March, all of 81 autonomies had non-nuclear policy in their administration.
A-bomb exhibition has been held in the Capital of India.
In the India's new administration which announced the possibility of the induction of nuclear weapons in its defense policy, A-bomb exhibition has been held in New Delhi, the Capital, for a month.
The exhibition was coordinated by both Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities and organization of scientists' groups in India.
The exhibition has raised some issues.
52 photo panels were planed to be exhibited but 6 of those were not permitted to display. A week before the opening, officials visited the exhibit site, where they called for withdrawing the 6 panels which were against the nuclear policy of India.
Although the press criticised officials' censorship, most criticism was directed toward nuclear weapon states which have urged India to sign the CTBT, developing their own nuclear weapons.
Mr. Hiraoka, Mayor of Hiroshima, who is visiting India, said "criticising a loophole in the CTBT alone would not lead to the way to the abolition of nuclear weapons".
Under the former administration when the A-bomb exhibition was held in Bombay in January, it was successful with more than 50,000 visitors.
According to Mayor Hiraoka, the A-bomb exhibition will be held in all of 26 national science centers. Mayor also told that there were some offers to hold the exhibition from Bangladesh and Pakistan.