International Human Solidarity Day 2024 is on Friday, December 20, 2024: A Con to having an international day of remembrance for all victims of Nuclear Warfare?

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For your debate, you could use the following points to argue against adding a day of remembrance for victims of Nuclear Warfare.

1. Master Chief is right -- why declare an *international* day for an incident that involved victims from only one country?

2. The victims are remembered every year in Japan and around the world on the anniversary of each bombing (Aug. 6 & 9.) Since there already are two days when the victims are remembered, why do we need another day of remembrance?

3. Adding more days to commemorate victims will just fill up the calendar. When every day is a victim remembrance day, the idea of a "day of remembrance" becomes diluted, because there are too many of them. There should be one day to commemorate all victims of war, and leave it at that.

For example, there is already an international day for remembering Victims of the Holocaust (Jan. 27), but there is no U.N. official day of rememberance for over a million victims of the Armenian Genocide (less than 100 years ago), and nearly a million victims of the Rwandan Genocide in the 1990s. If you add days for these to the calendar, then families of victims of smaller, but major incidents will want an official day of remembrance as well (the slippery slope argument.) Eventually, every day will be a remembrance day.

4. It could be argued that the Japanese victims of nuclear warfare were collateral damage resulting from war, the same way civilians killed in the Dresden bombing died in horrific manner--all three bombings were part of a strategy to end a war. Instead of a day to commemorate nuclear warfare victims, and another day to commemorate carpet bombing victims, and another for chemical weapon victims, perhaps the U.N. could simply add an International Day of Remembrance of Civilian Victims of War, to remember civilians killed in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, and other war zones.

5. Victims of nuclear warfare are already remembered on other international commemoration days, such as "International Disarmament Week", which is concerned with preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The International Day of Peace could also be expanded as a day to remember all victims of armed conflict.

Here's a list that shows how the calendar is already filling up with "International Days" regarding war and its victims:

* Jan. 27 - International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust

* March 24 - International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.

* June 4 - International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

* June 20 - World Refugee Day

* June 26 - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

* Aug. 30 - International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

* Sept. 21 - International Day of Peace

* Oct. 24-30 - Disarmament Week

* Nov. 29 - International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Today is international blasphemy day?

I would like to take this opportunity to say that I don't believe in any of the thousands of gods that have been worshipped at one point or another throughout human history.

How was Japan able to strengthen how they worked with people, helped people? Solidarity? Homogeneous?

Foreign residents

Transition of Numbers of Registered Foreigners in Japan from 5 Major Countries

See also: Koreans in Japan, Chinese people in Japan, Filipinos in Japan, Indonesians in Japan, Americans in Japan, Mongolians in Japan, Iranians in Japan, Russians in Japan, Pakistanis in Japan, Bangladeshis in Japan, Armenians in Japan, Turks in Japan, Vietnamese people in Japan, and Japanese Peruvian

See also: Japanese Brazilian, History of Jews in Japan, and Gaijin

In 2005 there were 1, 555, 505 foreign residents permanently residing in Japan, representing 1.22% of the Japanese population[12].

A significant portion of these foreign residents are in fact the descendants of Korean and Chinese labourers, who, in many cases, despite being born in Japan and only speaking Japanese, are not necessarily classed as Japanese citizens[13]. Most Koreans in Japan have never been to the Korean Peninsula and do not speak Korean.

Foreigners in Japan in 2000 by citizenship.

Source:Japan Statistics Bureau[14]

All non-Japanese without special residential status (people whose residential root go back to pre WWII) are required by law to register with the government and carry alien registration cards. From the early 1980s, a civil disobedience movement encouraged refusal of the fingerprinting that accompanied registration every five years. Those people who opposed fingerprinting argued that it was discriminatory because the only Japanese who were fingerprinted were criminals. The courts upheld fingerprinting, but the law was changed so that fingerprinting was done once rather than with each renewal of the registration.

[edit] Koseki

Japanese citizens are recorded in koseki (family registry) and jūminhyō (resident registry) systems, while foreign residents are only recorded in a separate alien registration system. In some areas, a non-Japanese person cannot be directly added to a koseki, which is the main record of familial relations.[citation needed] As a result, based on official records, the Japanese spouse of a foreigner may appear to be a single head of household, and children may appear as illegitimate. Some municipalities may compromise by allowing foreign spouses to be recorded in the "Notes" section of the koseki and jūminhyō.

[edit] Alien registration card

Foreign residents in Japan (those staying for more than 90 days) are issued an alien registration card. By law, foreign residents must carry their passport or alien registration card at all times and present it to police upon demand, even though Japanese citizens are not required to carry identification.

[edit] Foreigner-reporting website and hotline

The Japanese Ministry of Justice maintains a websiteand hotline (English reference) for "receiving report on illegal stay foreigner." Critics assert this is nothing but a snitching service, as the criteria for reporting include "feeling anxious about a foreigner," and anonymous submissions are permitted when reporting any non-Japanese. Japanese immigration authorities work in union with police to investigate those reported, and human rights groups such as Amnesty International have argued that those reported do not receive proper legal protection. The Daiyo Kangoku system allows police to detain suspects without charges, access to legal counsel or telephone calls for up to 23 days. In October 2006, the foreigner reporting hotline's operating hours were extended to include Saturday, Sunday and national holidays.

[edit] Fingerprinting foreigners when entering Japan

As of November 20, 2007, all foreigners entering Japan must be biometrically registered (photograph and fingerprints) on arrival; this includes people living in Japan with visas as well as permanent residents, but excludes the Zainichi and Chinese with special permanent resident permission and diplomats and those under 16.[15][16]