About 1,000 Japanese to travel to N.Y. for nuclear conference

About 1,000 Japanese, including atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, plan to travel to New York, which hosts a major conference on a nuclear nonproliferation treaty from early May, to make their case against nuclear arms.

The Japan Confederation of A- and H- Bomb Sufferers Organizations is planning to send in concert with several other civic groups around 90 people, including 30 A-bomb survivors.

Source: (Kyodo News)