In order to facilitate future activities and strengthen the sense of solidarity amongst member cities, Mayors for Peace introduced an annual Membership Fee in 2015. We ask each member city to pay a fee of 2,000 Japanese yen every year.
The collected Membership Fees will be allocated toward new and existing projects listed on the Mayors for Peace Action Plan. We deeply appreciate your city’s kind understanding and cooperation. Membership Fee details are specified below.
1. Amount: 2,000 Japanese Yen per city, per year
(about 14 USD/13 Euro as of March 26, 2025)
2. Due date: December 31, 2025
3. Payment Methods*
1) Online payment by credit card: Free of bank transfer fees
- Note 1: Online payment is only available via the Mayors for Peace Information System
- Note 2: Member cities which choose to pay online can access the document, “2025 INVOICE (for online payment by credit card)“, for their records.
- Note 3: If necessary, the billing name and address can be changed as needed by your city.
2) Payment via bank transfer: We ask cities which choose this option to add in all receiving bank charges to the membership fee
- Note 1: In addition to the Japanese receiving bank charges, we request that your city bear intermediary bank charges and any local bank charges as well. Please indicate that all remittance charges will be “paid by the remitter”.
- Note 2: Member cities which choose to pay via bank transfer can access the document, “2025 INVOICE (for bank transfer)“, for their records.
- Note 3: If necessary, the billing name and address can be changed as needed by your city.
*Please note that international drafts or bank cheques cannot be accepted.
Unfortunately, international drafts/bank cheques of less than 6,500 JPY cannot be accepted by banks in Japan as bank charges would exceed the amount your city would like to remit.
4. Membership Fees for previous years
If your city has not paid their Membership Fee in previous years, we ask your city to pay the total amount owed for each unpaid year since 2015. Please also notify us by email of your payment, specifying what years the payment is for.
5. Please contact the Secretariat in the following cases*
1) When your city would like to be exempt from fee payment
In cases that meet provisions 3 and 4 of Article 2 of the Guidelines for the Handling of Mayors for Peace Membership Fees, member cities can be exempt from annual fee payments.
2) When your city has difficulty paying the Membership Fee
*Please note that we ask cities in either of these situations to contact the Secretariat each and every year they are so affected.
6. Links to other documents
Request for the 2025 Mayors for Peace Membership Fee (From the President of Mayors for Peace)
Fiscal Year 2023 Financial Statement
Mayors for Peace is dedicated to supporting and creating initiatives to realize lasting world peace and nuclear weapons abolition.
We deeply appreciate your city’s continued support and understanding of our activities.