Hiroshima City's Initiatives for Peace

The City of Hiroshima's Peace Initiatives

Information about the background and basic concepts of the City of Hiroshima's peace initiatives can be found here.​

Promoting Initiatives for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

• Fostering international and domestic public opinion towards the abolition of nuclear weapons
• Enhancing and strengthening Mayors for Peace
• Drawing up and disseminating the Peace Declaration
• International Symposium for Peace
• Hosting UN Disarmament Fellows
• Peace Education Webinar
• Training session in Hiroshima for United Nations tour guides

Detailed information about these initiatives can be found here.

Raising Awareness of Peace

• Promoting the Culture of Peace
• Children's Peace Assembly
• Peace Club
• Peace Night Hiroshima
• Hiroshima Peace Forum
• Honoring and transforming the wishes for peace folded into paper cranes
• Peace Message Program with products made from recycled paper cranes

Detailed information about these initiatives can be found here.

Conveying the Reality of the Atomic Bombing to Future Generations

• Preserving and conveying atomic-bombed buildings and trees for future generations
• Improving preservation measures for a collection of materials at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
• Collecting atomic-bombed artifacts
• Peace study workshops
• Youth Peace Volunteer Program
• Hiroshima Peace Volunteer Program
• Supporting volunteer staff at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
• Providing hibakusha testimonies to audiences abroad via video conferences
• Sharing hibakusha testimonies with students visiting Hiroshima
• Offering Atomic Bomb Legacy Successor presentations
• Training official Atomic Bomb Legacy Successors
• Promoting the Hiroshima for Global Peace Plan
• Management and administration of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
• Creating peace study materials for small children

Detailed information about these initiatives can be found here.

Other Information

• Hiroshima Peace Memorial City Construction Law
• List of Major Activities (Chronological table)
• Outline of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Inquiries about this page

Peace Promotion Division
International Peace Promotion Department
Tel: 082-242-7831 // Fax:082-242-7452
Email: peace@city.hiroshima.lg.jp