Okamoto volunteers as an English guide for tourists visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. “Even after graduating, I want to continue contributing to Hiroshima,” she said. The award ...
The commemorative ceremony is held annually on Aug. 6 in front of a cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park that reads, “Let all the souls here rest in peace; For we shall not repeat the ...
The about 28,500-capacity stadium sits in a park located in the center of Hiroshima. It is 15 minutes by foot from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Hiroshima Hondori Shopping Street. The stadium ...
Sachi Okamoto, 23, a youth peace volunteer who guides foreign visitors at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, also joined the event and commented, "To build peace, it's important to have dialogue ...
Shigeko Sasamori, who was severely burned at 13 when a nuclear bomb exploded over Japan and later, in the United States, championed peace and found comfort in helping others as a nurse’s aide, died ...