Of all visitors to the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, the ratio of visitors from overseas is increasing every year, and now accounts for around 40% of the total. By having such visitors read the atomic bombing testimonials in their mother tongue, we hope that people from various different countries and regions will gain a deeper understanding of the reality of the damage inflicted by the bombing. For this reason, the Memorial Hall has been providing multi-language translations of the testimonials since 2009.
　The search devices in each section of the Memorial Hall allow visitors to browse the testimonials in the four languages of Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean. Additionally, in the foreign language section of the library the testimonials can be viewed in 24 languages. Videos of the testimonials are also provided with dubbing or subtitles and these can also be viewed using the search devices.
　On the peace information network "GLOBAL NETWORK" on the Memorial Hall's website the testimonials and testimonial videos are also available in multiple languages (URL: https://www.global-peace.go.jp/). English, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Italian, Indonesian, Urdu, Dutch, Greek, Croatian, Swedish, Spanish, Slovenian, Thai, German, Norwegian, Hungarian, Hindi, Tagalog, Finnish, French, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Polish, Portuguese, Malay, Montenegrin, Russian.