City of Yokohama Honors Steven Seagal –Pledges Support and Issues Proclamation. The popular mayor of the city of Yokohama Hiroshi Nakada, welcomed international action star / musician Steven Seagal together with a delegation from the GND Fund, to the city in a formal meeting attended by members of the press. During the meeting Mayor Nakata expressed his sincere gratitude to Seagal for championing a cause so dear to the people of Japan, and pledged “full support” from the city that was the site of the surrender treaty ending WWII, of the efforts made by Seagal and the GND Fund to destroy nuclear weapons.

At the end of the official meeting Mayor Nakata presented an official proclamation commending Seagal as the first private citizen to destroy a nuclear weapon.