The 9th Meeting to Commemorate the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Victims
Renewing our commitment to future generations and the abolition of nuclear weapons |
Since 2003, this Foundation has held the Meeting to Commemorate the Nagasaki
Atomic Bomb Victims on August 9th, 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. |
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A presentation by Tomo-minami Elementary School student council |
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.
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(Peace and International Solidarity Promotion Division)
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