Cracks appear in Isamu Noguchi’s Hiroshima Peace Bridge

October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 GetHiroshima 512 Views Architecture, Peace

Cracks have appeared on part of Hiroshima’s Peace Bridge, which was designed by world-renowned sculptor Isamu Noguchi, despite the bridge

Hiroshima “Since and Then”

Asageshiki deliver a free online tour from Mt Futaba which overlooks Hiroshima city is the location of the Hiroshima Peace Pagoda starting at 7:30am, 45 minutes before the city remembers the A-bombing of 1945.

The Power of Youth From Hiroshima

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres joins young peace activists in a live streamed panel discussion.

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Global virtual screening of “8:15 Hiroshima From Father To Daughter”

August 2, 2022August 24, 2022 GetHiroshima 3608 Views A-bomb, Hiroshima Day, Hiroshima77, Peace

8:15 Hiroshima From Father To Daughter is a hybrid documentary-narrative film directed by J.R. Heffelfinger and available to watch online for free August 6-9.

Talk to A-bomb Survivors On August 6

On August 6, the anniversary of the bombing, people are welcome to chat with survivors in person and online.

Features Peace

Lantern floating commemoration returns to Hiroshima Peace Day

August 2, 2022August 24, 2022 GetHiroshima 1619 Views A-bomb, Hiroshima Day, Hiroshima77, Peace

The picturesque and poignant lantern floating ceremony will be held on the evening of the anniversary of the A-bomb attack on Hiroshima for the first time in 3 years on Saturday, August 6th.

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Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2022 “Peace Match”

July 16, 2022July 16, 2022 GetHiroshima 998 Views August 6, Peace, Sanfrecce

Every year Sanfrecce Hiroshima’s home game that falls closest to the August 6 anniversary of the A-bomb attack on Hiroshima has been designated the as a “Peace Match”.

A group of local BMXers have caused outrage after they spent a few minutes leaping on and off the parapet at the end the West Peace Bridge. The group of 5 or 6 youths were seen to riding up and jumping off the 2.3m arched parapet by a Chugoku Shinbun photographer from the 3rd floor of the newspaper's office at around 5:50pm on July 10. The newspaper says that left the scene after about 5 minutes. The parapet was designed by the late Isamu Noguchi, a world-renowned sculptor, and symbolizes the recovery from the atomic bombing. Some A-bomb survivors have descried the act as "outrageous," and the police and the city have warned that it could have led to an accident. The bridge was built in 1952, 7 years after the A-bombing, and designed by Isamu Noguchi, and was recently repaired. Hiroshi Harada, an 82-year-old A-bomb survivor and former director of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, said, "It is located at the entrance to Peace Memorial Park and is a monument that should be carefully protected by the citizens. It is outrageous." While we can understand the anger at this kind of behavior so close to the entrance of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, one wonders if Noguchi he had been told so soon after the A-bombing that in 70 years the youth of Hiroshima would be using memorials as playthings, whether he would have been outraged or encouraged. Source: Chugoku Shinbun

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Outrage at BMXers tricking on the Hiroshima Peace Bridge

July 11, 2022September 19, 2022 GetHiroshima 1828 Views Crime, Peace

Outrage after a group of BMXers were seen tricking on the West Peace Bridge near the entrance to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

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So we banned nuclear weapons. What’s next?

December 16, 2020January 22, 2022 Annelise Giseburt 2279 Views nuclear weapons, Peace

Hiroshima welcomes the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entry into force, even as the Japanese government continues to boycott it.

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Kunihiko Sakuma: The young hibakusha

August 7, 2020November 12, 2022 Paul Walsh 3629 Views A-bomb, Peace

Director of atomic bomb suvivor advocacy group Hiroshima Hidankyo, Kunihiko Sakuma talks about his journey to finding his voice as a “young hibakusha”.

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