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Loaning of Atomic Bomb Artifacts to the Nobel Peace Center
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The Nobel Peace Center, located in Oslo, Norway, is holding an exhibition on ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), the organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, from December 2017 to November 2018.
The exhibition includes displays on the history of ICAN's activities, as well as on the damage from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum and Ritsumeikan University's Kyoto Museum of World Peace loaned atomic bomb artifacts for the displays.
The artifacts loaned by Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum were a bag and air raid hood belonged to 13-year-old Yukitoshi Masuda, who was exposed to the bomb at his building demolition worksite, and went missing.
Yukitoshi's father searched throughout the city looking for him, but his body was never found, and this bag with the air raid hood inside it were found by a person in the neighborhood on August 7 and became a memento of Yukitoshi.
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