Nihon Hidankyo urges investment ban on makers of nuclear weapons ⁠0%

By JIJI⁠0%

4/10/2026, 5:38:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Indoctrination, Biased Writer Voice, and Negativity Bias, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 29.9% saturation with 78 hits. Analysis detected 746 faulty-reasoning hits from 261 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠0% (0 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.

Nihon Hidankyo, a group of atomic bomb survivors in Japan, said Friday that it will launch a campaign urging financial institutions not to invest in or give loans to companies that manufacture nuclear weapons. 
Nihon Hidankyo, formally called the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, and others will make the request directly to financial institutions, arguing that "as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has become an international standard, providing funds to (nuclear weapon) manufacturers runs counter to corporate social responsibility." 
The group met with officials of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group the same day to call for the prohibition. 
It is set to make the same request to Mizuho Financial Group on April 17. 
Sumitomo Mitsui and Mizuho are among Japan's three megabank groups. 
"Nuclear weapons are the weapons of the devil," Nihon Hidankyo co-chair Terumi Tanaka, 93, told a news conference in Tokyo. 
"Whatever the form, (people and companies) should not participate in their creation." 
Masako Wada, assistant secretary-general of the organization, said she does not expect financial institutions' involvement in nuclear weapon manufacturing and said, "It's important to let them know." 
"I hope that the public will know how their deposits are being used and that financial institutions as a whole will move to withdraw funds" from nuclear weapons makers, said Takeo Nakagawa of the Physicians against Nuclear War organization. 
Resona Holdings, a major banking group, and Nippon Life Insurance, Japan's leading life insurer, have rules prohibiting investments and loans linked to nuclear weapon manufacturing. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 29.9%JIJI: 2.2%The Japan Times: 3.5%Confirmation Bias29.9%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.5%The Japan Times: 1.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 3.8%JIJI: 2.6%The Japan Times: 4.7%Availability Heuristic3.8%This article: 19.5%JIJI: 1.6%The Japan Times: 1.3%Representativeness Heuristic19.5%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.6%The Japan Times: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 16.9%JIJI: 8.2%The Japan Times: 14.4%Framing Effect16.9%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 0.9%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 9.6%JIJI: 1.7%The Japan Times: 1.3%Status Quo Bias9.6%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 10.3%JIJI: 4.4%The Japan Times: 4.7%Optimism Bias10.3%This article: 19.5%JIJI: 2.9%The Japan Times: 3.3%Pessimism Bias19.5%This article: 22.6%JIJI: 5.0%The Japan Times: 11.6%Negativity Bias22.6%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.3%The Japan Times: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 1.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.8%The Japan Times: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 9.6%JIJI: 0.6%The Japan Times: 1.5%Halo Effect9.6%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.3%The Japan Times: 2.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 0.9%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 19.5%JIJI: 5.7%The Japan Times: 5.5%Appeal to Authority19.5%This article: 4.6%JIJI: 0.9%The Japan Times: 1.7%False Dilemma4.6%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 14.9%JIJI: 0.7%The Japan Times: 4.5%Hasty Generalization14.9%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 3.8%JIJI: 1.4%The Japan Times: 0.6%Bandwagon3.8%This article: 7.7%JIJI: 4.0%The Japan Times: 3.6%Appeal to Emotion7.7%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.3%The Japan Times: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 1.9%The Japan Times: 4.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.1%The Japan Times: 1.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 4.6%JIJI: 0.1%The Japan Times: 0.0%No True Scotsman4.6%This article: 14.9%JIJI: 2.9%The Japan Times: 3.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)14.9%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 2.9%The Japan Times: 4.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 7.7%JIJI: 2.1%The Japan Times: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection7.7%This article: 23.4%JIJI: 4.7%The Japan Times: 9.0%Biased Writer Voice23.4%This article: 28.0%JIJI: 2.1%The Japan Times: 1.6%Indoctrination28.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.0%The Japan Times: 0.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 14.9%JIJI: 0.2%The Japan Times: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…14.9%

261 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers38%attributed speech163writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 34 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 51 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageTerumi Tanaka • 20 words • 100.0% coverageTerumi Tanaka • 12 words • 100.0% coverageMasako Wada • 27 words • 100.0% coverageTakeo Nakagawa • 39 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverage
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Takeo Nakagawa

100%flagged-word coverage
39 attributed words40% of attributed speech80% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Takeo Nakagawa: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-37.4 ptsWriter: 37.4%Takeo Nakagawa: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-20.9 ptsWriter: 20.9%Takeo Nakagawa: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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