【外国語翻訳：4-1】About the Second Hiroshima Festival

Every other year, the City of Hiroshima holds Hiroshima Festival, an integrated cultural arts event focused on music and media arts (animation, etc.) that aims to invigorate cultural arts activities in the Hiroshima Regional Urban Area (HURA), create a vibrant city, and promote tourism. In addition to these aims, we also hope to give visitors to the Festival, including Hiroshima citizens, as well as domestic and overseas visitors to the HRUA, more opportunities to connect with diverse high-quality music and art, as well as to promote the Culture of Peace, which shares the will for peace.

Through the Festival, we will create opportunities for cultural organizations, artists, students, and more in the HRUA to perform, and hope to promote community-building between participants and organizations, as well as foster expansion and cultivation of the next generation that will take the lead in cultural arts activities.

1) Festival Name

The Second Hiroshima Festival

2) Concept

Spreading the seeds of peace to bloom in the next generation

3) Festival Period

Throughout August 2024 (parts of this project will be held throughout the year)

4) Venues

Locations inside Hiroshima City and the Hiroshima Regional Urban Area*

*Comprised of Hiroshima City, Kure City, Takehara City, Mihara City, Miyoshi City, Otake City, Higashihiroshima City, Hatsukaichi City, Akitakata City, Etajima City, Fuchu Town, Kaita Town, Kumano Town, Saka Town, Akiota Town, Kitahiroshima Town, Osakikamijima Town, Sera Town, Iwakuni City, Yanai City, Suo-Oshima Town, Waki Town, Kaminoseki Town, Tabuse Town, Hirao Town, Hamada City, Iinan Town, Kawamoto Town, Misato Town, Ohnan Town (as of August 2024)

5) Organizer

Hiroshima Festival Organizing Committee (Secretariat: The City of Hiroshima and the Hiroshima City Culture Foundation)

6) Logo

This logo was created to express the camphor tree, the symbol of Hiroshima’s recovery, and a bird’s eye view of the rivers to represent Hiroshima’s title of the City of Water. The seven colors represent the diversity of the Hiroshima Festival.​

7) Useful information

• The official website for the Second Hiroshima Festival can be found here＜外部リンク＞.
• You can find a report on the First Hiroshima Festival here＜外部リンク＞ (Japanese).