Mayors for Peace is an international organization of cities dedicated to the promotion of peace that was established in 1982 at the initiative of then mayor of Hiroshima Takeshi Araki.
To this appeal of ours, both Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and President H.S. Amerasinghe of the General Assembly, representing the United Nations, respectively emphasized that the sufferings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are sufferings to be shared by the whole of mankind, and that a new concept of world order should be built from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Takeshi Kitano | Takeshi Okada | Takeshi's Castle | Takeshi Obata | Nobuyoshi Araki | Masahiro Araki | Gregg Araki | Takeshi Kaneshiro | Takeshi Yoshida | Takeshi Terauchi | Takeshi Okumura | Takeshi Mori (voice actor) | Takeshi Morishima | Takeshi Kimura | TetsurÅ Araki | Takeshi Yamamoto | Takeshi Ueda | Takeshi Tsuruno | Takeshi Kato | Takeshi Ito | Takeshi Araki | Takarabe Takeshi | Sayaka Araki | Araki Murashige | 26 May 1945. Corporal Yukio Araki, holding a puppy, with four other pilots of the 72nd ''Shinbu'' Squadron at Kaseda, Kagoshima |