International Youth Summit for Nuclear Abolition opens in Hiroshima
Sep. 16, 2015
by Masanori Wada, Staff Writer
The International Youth Summit for Nuclear Abolition opened in Naka Ward, Hiroshima on August 28. Taking part in the summit are 30 young men and women in their 20s and 30s from 23 nations, including Japan and the United States. Over the course of three days, they will learn about the effects of the atomic bombing and consider the actions they can take to advance the abolition of nuclear weapons.
On the first day of the gathering, the participants toured the Peace Memorial Museum in the Peace Memorial Park, located in Naka Ward, and laid flowers at the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims. Afterward, they met with Toshiko Tanaka, 76, an A-bomb survivor and a resident of Higashi Ward, and listened to her account of what happened when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The young people asked her various questions such as whether the survivors are still suffering from the trauma of the A-bomb attack.
The summit, organized by a steering committee composed of Soka Gakkai International and other organizations, will produce a Youth Pledge on August 29. At 10 a.m. on August 30, a public forum will be held at the RIHGA Royal Hotel in Naka Ward, where a keynote speech will be delivered by the U.N. Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth and a documentary film that has digitally recreated the city’s appearance before the atomic bombing will be screened.
(Originally published on August 29, 2015)
The International Youth Summit for Nuclear Abolition opened in Naka Ward, Hiroshima on August 28. Taking part in the summit are 30 young men and women in their 20s and 30s from 23 nations, including Japan and the United States. Over the course of three days, they will learn about the effects of the atomic bombing and consider the actions they can take to advance the abolition of nuclear weapons.
On the first day of the gathering, the participants toured the Peace Memorial Museum in the Peace Memorial Park, located in Naka Ward, and laid flowers at the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims. Afterward, they met with Toshiko Tanaka, 76, an A-bomb survivor and a resident of Higashi Ward, and listened to her account of what happened when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The young people asked her various questions such as whether the survivors are still suffering from the trauma of the A-bomb attack.
The summit, organized by a steering committee composed of Soka Gakkai International and other organizations, will produce a Youth Pledge on August 29. At 10 a.m. on August 30, a public forum will be held at the RIHGA Royal Hotel in Naka Ward, where a keynote speech will be delivered by the U.N. Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth and a documentary film that has digitally recreated the city’s appearance before the atomic bombing will be screened.
(Originally published on August 29, 2015)
