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Celebrate! LOVE & PEACE Parade 2025 in TOKYO in commemoration of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo): Hello Friends of the Earth (“LOVE & PEACE Parade 2025” for short)
On Sunday, March 30, friends of the Earth will gather, along with A-bomb survivors, for a parade through Aoyama and Omotesando, Tokyo to celebrate the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo)!
This year, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, as well as the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
During this period, the world experienced were several periods of heightened nuclear tension, but the fact that nuclear weapons have never been used in a war is thanks to the Hibakusha, who have continued to share their experiences with the world.
Let us enjoy walking through the streets of Shibuya to show our gratitude to these hibakusha!
Costumes are OK!
Playing musical instruments is OK!
Dancing is also OK!
Let us parade with free expression each person's message for a world filled with love and peace, without nuclear weapons or war!
And let us rejoice in life and play the harmony of life!
About “Celebrate! LOVE & PEACE Parade 2025 in TOKYO in commemoration of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo): Hello Friends of the Earth”
＜Outline of Event>
Date:
March 30, 2025 (Sun.) 14:00 start (rain or shine)
Parade Route (tentative):
United Nations University → Aoyama Street → Omotesando Street → Yoyogi Park (about 2.5km) (tentative). ※ Finish at 15:30
Group/Individual Entry Method
Please fill out the entry form and submit.
Groups will have their group name, etc. posted on the website, etc.
Operation and Cooperation Fee (Chip-in format)
We ask for a minimum donation of 500 yen per person.
*People under 18 years old, people over 80 years old, and family members of A-bomb survivors, and refugees can participate in the event without paying the operation & cooperation fee.
The operational participation fee will be collected at the reception desk on the day of the event in exchange for a certificate of participation (special badge).
The money will be used to cover the cost of arranging bus transportation for A-bomb survivors, insurance, printing, and other operating expenses.
We welcome those who cannot participate in the event, but would like to support the event with a donation!
Organizers
Earth Day Tokyo / LOVE & PEACE Parade 2025 Executive Committee
Supporting and Cooperating Organizations
NPO PEACE DAY / Earth Day Japan Network / Earth Day Tokyo 2025 Executive Committee / Citizens' Gathering for the 311 Great East Japan Earthquake / Japan Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons / Inochi no Matsuri (Festival of Life) Executive Committee / NPO Earth Caravan / NPO World Hibakusha Exhibition / BE-IN Tokyo , etc.
＞＞Love & Peace Parade Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/love369peace/
>Inquiries about the Love & Peace Parade
> > Parade entry form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1Myq0HTY8JlsYZCoaKO_zly_XRsCNmqaAomNCzSTJmusa8g/viewform
Not only Hiroshima and Nagasaki Hibakusha around the world (ended)
April 26 (Friday) ∼ May 8 (Wednesday)
Hours 10:00-17:00
Close at 16:00 on the
last day
Venue Former Bank of Japan, Hiroshima Branch
(A-bombed building)
5-16 Fukuro-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima
◎Contents
Photo Exhibition 120 photographs taken by six Japanese photojournalists of hibakusha and nuclear contamination sites caused by atomic bombs, nuclear tests, nuclear accidents, depleted uranium shells, uranium mines, etc. will be exhibited.
Let's Play Prayer Songs -Songs of the Expanse and Depths of the Heart
April 29 (Mon.)
13:30-15:30
Place-opening ceremony @ former Bank of Japan, Hiroshima Branch
17:30-21:30
Social gathering, Marche @ Kamiyacho Chareo
May 8 (Wed.)
14:00-16:00
Closing Ceremony @Former Bank of Japan, Hiroshima Branch
17:30-21:00
Closing Party: Food Art x Music x Dance @ Kamiyacho Chareo
Soichiro Shigematsu (piano)
Seiko Usami (dance, song, performance)
Hiroshima Choir
and many other performers and vendors
The World Hibakusha Exhibition@ Kyoto
Dates: August 6, 2013 – September 8, 2013 (closed Mondays)
Hours : 10:00am - 5:00pm (starts at 1:00 on the opening day)
Location: Kyoto Shokoku-j Jotenkaku Museum
Address: 701 Sokokuji, Monzen-cho, Imadegawakarasuma Higashiiru Agaru, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto City 602-0898
Telephone : 075-241-0423
Access: Subway Karasuma Line to "Imadegawa Station".Kyoto City Bus to "DoshishaMae".
Entrance: Free (entrance fees charged for Jotenkakuji museum exhibitions)
The World Hibakusha Exhibition (No More Hibakusha) at Rio + 20 with OWABI (apologies)
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In June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is hosting
the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development（Rio＋20）,
to mark the 20th anniversary of the Earth Summit held in 1992.
During the period between 16th June and 22nd June,
we are showing the World Hibakusha Exhibition (No More Hibakusha)
with OWABI (apologies) as part of the Future Territories,
a series of events, which run concurrently with the conference,
organised by citizens’ groups the world over.
Doves will carry your messages of love
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We have made dove-shaped handmade cards using recycled milk cartons.
You, who have come to see our exhibition, can write your message of love.
The messages will be displayed at the World Hibakusha Exhibition (No More Hibakusha)
wherever it goes in the world. Your message will also be posted on our website
where it will be seen worldwide.
Doves were once used to carry messages for military purposes,
but now, they carry people’s messages of hope from all over the world and
fly freely across borders – conveying the hope that one day the world will be nuclear-free.
Our recent activities
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- 6th – 10th June 2012 Ooma Town, Aomori, Japan
Exhibited photos of world hibakushas, showing the horrors of radiation, in Ooma Town,
where a new nuclear power plant was, and still is, being built.
- 27th May 2012 Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Showed hibakusha photos at a citizens’ forum,
“Setagaya Energy Shift – Classroom for Our Future”, in Setagaya.
- 11th March 2012 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
A small hibakusha photo exhibition as part of an anti-nuclear power event
organised by young people, to commemorate the first anniversary of the 3/11 earthquake,
tsunami and nuclear disaster in Eastern Japan, at a music club in Shibuya.
- 14th – 15th January 2012 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Took part in the first Global Conference for a Nuclear Free World held atPacifico Yokohama.
Seventy hibakusha photos were displayed during the conference which was attended by
11,000 people from all over the world.
The photos were viewed with great interest, appreciation and approval by many participants
who commented,
“These photos speak to me directly about things that words cannot express”,and,
“Many more people should know the truth about hibakushas”.
- 7th December 2011 Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
The ‘Urgent’ World Hibakusha Exhibition Forum, the first showing of hibakusha photos
by the six photographers after a six-year gap, held at Meguro Persimmon Hall,
in response to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.
The event also involved lectures and presentations about the adverse effects of
radiation contamination from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe on health and
how to protectagainst them.
"Hibakusha around the World" in Hiroshima
The photo exhibition "Not Only Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Hibakusha around the World" at the former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch, an A-bombed building, was visited by approximately 3,500 people from Hiroshima and those who visited Hiroshima during Golden Week during the exhibition period from April 26 to May 8, 2024.
We were impressed by the high level of interest shown by visitors, many of whom eagerly looked at the approximately 130 photos, including those of the special exhibit "Abandoned Hibakusha" (photo by Takashi Ito), while reading the explanations of each photo.
In addition, "Prayer Songs - Songs of the Expanse and the Abyss of the Heart," which was held during the period as a project of the co-sponsor, MIZUNOTE General Foundation, featured wonderful performances and music by artists and the Hiroshima Chorus who participated from various parts of the country, as a requiem for those who died and a prayer for peace. It was a wonderful time to share our thoughts and feelings for peace.
Through this photo exhibition, We realized that even in Hiroshima, where the atomic bomb was dropped, hibakusha around the world are surprisingly little known. We realized that even in peace education, people learn about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but not so much about the Hibakusha around the world, and I felt once again the importance of conveying the message of "Hibakusha around the world".
We would like to take this opportunity to further promote our efforts to make the photos from the World Hibakusha Exhibition come to life.
Thank you all for your continued support.
You can use photos of A-bomb survivors in messages related to Ukraine
We know that the Russian attack on nuclear power plants in Ukraine and nuclear threats are causing many of you to feel an unprecedented sense of urgency.
Although we, too, feel helpless, we have been thinking about what we can do as a non-profit organization, the World Hibakusha Exhibition, and have decided to provide you with a symbolic photographs.
These photographs, titled "Hibakusha: Hatsuko Tominaga" and "Hibakusha: Motoyo Fujiwara," are the work of Ittetsu Morishita, a photographer who took photographs of Hibakusha in Hiroshima and Nagasaki for nearly half a century and died last year. Ittetsu Morishita founded the World Hibakusha Exhibition 20 years ago with the aim of raising public opinion for a nuclear-free world.
The following two photographs are provided.
Photo 1: TOMINAGA Hatsuko
1914-2002/Hiroshima Hibakusha
The white specks in her eyes are atomic cataracts.
A sharp pain runs through her body constantly, causing her to distort her eyebrows.
(1977, Eba, Hiroshima MORISHITA Ittetsu)
Photo 2: FUJIWARA Motoyo
1894-1989/Hiroshima Hibakusha
When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Ms.FUJIWARA, who was helping to evacuate the city, was working near the Fukuya department store, 600 meters from the hypocenter.
Her five-year-old daughter and seventeen-year-old son died one month after the bombing. After that, she was alone and working hard, until becoming ill at the age of 91.
In this photo, you can see scars and burns on her arms and hands; they caused her much pain, especially in winter.
(1977, Hakushima, Hiroshima MORISHITA Ittetsu)
These photos, along with "Stop attacks on nuclear power plants!", "Don't use nuclear weapons!", "Don't threaten with nuclear weapons.", and "Peace in We thought that by having messages such as "Ukraine!" used together, we could contribute to sending a strong message around the world.
These photos are representative of a series of photos of A-bomb survivors that won the Grand Prix for the Peace and Nationality Award in the International Documentary Art Photo Contest "Humanity and Peace" to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the USSR.
I would like to think that it was some kind of mistake to use works that were appreciated by the Russian people on these occasions, but I am sure that many of the Russian people never wanted war either.
We, with all people, would like to overcome the nuclear crisis and see peace return to Ukraine.
If you wish to use them, please download the photos below.
We hope that these photos, which are filled with the thoughts and feelings of the Hibakusha, will be of some help to you.
