Raising Awareness of Peace

Our city regards it important for the Culture of Peace to take root across civil society, meaning that each and every citizen thinks about and takes action for peace in their daily lives. To that end, we are promoting the Culture of Peace widely, through holding peace-themed events during the Culture of Peace Month and distributing a booklet: Promoting the Culture of Peace, among other initiatives.

We hold the Children's Peace Assembly for both local children and those visiting Hiroshima to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony on August 6, providing an occasion for them to send out a message of peace. Through this effort, we aim to raise their peace consciousness and inspire them to take independent-minded action.

For the purpose of developing human resources to promote peace, we provide opportunities for junior and senior high school students to learn about the atomic bombing and to develop their ability to work for peace through lectures, practical training, workshops, and exchange activities with young people from other cities.

Starting in 2020, which marked the 75th year since the atomic bombing, we have held an annual peace night event in Peace Memorial Park. The event is planned and organized by young people to spread the message of peace.

Peace Night Hiroshima is held in November, Culture of Peace Month. 

We provide opportunities for young people 18 and older who reside in or commute to Hiroshima to contemplate the atomic bombing and peace, as well as explore how they can contribute to the cause of peace through lectures and discussions among participants.

In order to expand the circle of people calling for a peaceful world that is free of nuclear weapons, we hope to widely share the wishes for peace folded into paper cranes offered from both Japan and abroad at the Children's Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park. To achieve this goal, we have implemented initiatives to honor and transform these wishes by recycling paper cranes in meaningful ways since FY2012.

We distribute products made from recycled paper cranes to the students visiting the Peace Memorial Museum to remind them of their wishes for peace after touching upon the realities of the atomic bombing at the museum.