Since 2003, this Foundation has held the Meeting to Commemorate the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Victims on August 9^th, the day the A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The purpose is to express our condolences for the victims of the Nagasaki bombing and our solidarity as a city that suffered a similar fate. We also reaffirm our commitment to peace.
At this year's meeting, around 150 people gathered in the Memorial Hall of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. As they watched the live feed of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Victims Memorial Peace Prayer Ceremony, they joined in the moment of silence at 11:02, marking the exact time the bomb was dropped. They then watched a DVD of Katsuji Yoshida recounting what he witnessed in the bombing of Nagasaki.
Collaborating on the commemoration for the first time was the citizen's group Hiroshima to Nagasaki wo tsunageru purojekuto (Connecting Hiroshima-Nagasaki Project), and many events by younger members were on the day's menu, such as presentations by Tomo-minami Elementary School student council and The No Nuke Network: Students of Hiroshima Against Nuclear Weapons, an organization created by junior and senior high school students from Hiroshima intent on abolishing nuclear weapons. The commemoration concluded with an address from Sunao Tsuboi, Director of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations.