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TOKYO, JAPANCapital and the largest city of Japan (pop. 9,000,000), situated on east-central Honshu, at the head of Tokyo Bay. Tokyo is the administrative, financial, and cultural centre of Japan. It is a world economic centre that rivals New York and London. Founded in the 12th century as Edo, it was the capital of the shogunate from 1603 to 1868, when the emperor was restored to power and made Edo the nation’s capital, renaming it Tokyo. In 1923 an earthquake and fire destroyed nearly half the city. Heavy allied bombing in World War II devastated much of Tokyo, including nearly all of its industrial plants. Today’s Tokyo is also one of the world’s foremost educational cities with over 100 colleges and universities. Frequent rebuilding in the wake of disasters has made it one of the world’s most modern cities. |
4/12/2010
Press Release - Oswiecim AppealMayor Janusz Marszalek of Oswiecim, Poland, known throughout the world as the site of the infamous Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, has called upon the world’s Head of States, in the name of the one and a half million victims who perished in the furnaces, to use the approaching
United Nations’ Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May to negotiate steps for a convention for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
2/10/2010 / New York
Extraordinary IAPMC Executive Board Meeting, New York (April 29 - May 3, 2010)The 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review International Planning Committee, comprised of NGO’s from the United States, Europe and Asia is organizing a day and a half long international conference on Nuclear Abolition, Peace and Disarmament on May 1, 2010, the eve of the NPT Review Conference at the United Nations. The conference will be held in the Riverside Church in New York City and will include between 800 and 1,000 participants.
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