Screening of President Obama’s speech in Hiroshima begins at Peace Memorial Museum
Jul. 13, 2016
by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer
On July 13, the City of Hiroshima began screening a video of the speech made by U.S. President Barack Obama in Hiroshima at the video theater on the first floor of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. This screening will continue until August 31 and visitors can watch the video for free.
President Obama visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the A-bombed city, and delivered a 17-minute speech in front of the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims. The video runs about 25 minutes, and includes the speech made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who accompanied the president to Hiroshima. Screenings of this video currently take place three times in the morning and four times in the afternoon. The video includes no Japanese subtitles, but a translation of President Obama’s speech in Japanese, prepared by the U.S. embassy in Japan, is provided for free.
In August, screenings will be held six to eight times in the afternoon.
The video was provided by the Cabinet Public Relations Office in Japan after a request was made by the City of Hiroshima. An official from the city’s Peace Promotion Division said, “We hope visitors from Japan and the rest of the world will feel a stronger desire for advancing a world without nuclear weapons, as advocated by President Obama in his speech, by watching the video.”
(Originally published on July 13, 2016)
On July 13, the City of Hiroshima began screening a video of the speech made by U.S. President Barack Obama in Hiroshima at the video theater on the first floor of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. This screening will continue until August 31 and visitors can watch the video for free.
President Obama visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the A-bombed city, and delivered a 17-minute speech in front of the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims. The video runs about 25 minutes, and includes the speech made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who accompanied the president to Hiroshima. Screenings of this video currently take place three times in the morning and four times in the afternoon. The video includes no Japanese subtitles, but a translation of President Obama’s speech in Japanese, prepared by the U.S. embassy in Japan, is provided for free.
In August, screenings will be held six to eight times in the afternoon.
The video was provided by the Cabinet Public Relations Office in Japan after a request was made by the City of Hiroshima. An official from the city’s Peace Promotion Division said, “We hope visitors from Japan and the rest of the world will feel a stronger desire for advancing a world without nuclear weapons, as advocated by President Obama in his speech, by watching the video.”
(Originally published on July 13, 2016)
