Fukuyama NPO publishes booklet about history of peace exchanges between Japan and Germany, including tributes to late German NGO chairperson
Jun. 15, 2021
by Haruka Saeki, Staff Writer
The Japanese-German Peace Forum, a non-profit organization (NPO) based in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, has arranged the group’s activities up until the present time into a booklet. In the publication, the organization paid tribute to the late Eugen Manfred Eichhorn, chairman of the Berlin-based non-governmental organization (NGO) German-Japanese Peace Forum Berlin, Germany, who died at age 75 in May 2020 from COVID-19. The Japan forum and the German forum organizations have continued to communicate at the grassroots level since 1987.
Members of the organizations take turns visiting each other’s country nearly every year. As such, they have been able to reinforce their ideas about peace by listening to the experiences of concerned individuals in the A-bombed city of Hiroshima and at former concentration camps where Jewish people were once imprisoned, among other activities. The late Mr. Eichhorn, a former professor at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, put tremendous effort in the anti-nuclear movement, which included his work to initiate the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Course” at his university.
The booklet introduces the history of peace exchanges between the organizations using photographs. Also listed are condolences from the Japanese-German Peace Forum members to the late Mr. Eichhorn: “We will never forget you, a man of action” and “Your witty remarks remain in my heart.”
Tamio Murata, 73, a resident of Akasaka-cho in Fukuyama City and a representative of the Japanese-German Peace Forum, said about Mr. Eichhorn, “He valued interaction with A-bomb survivors and visited Japan numerous times. By incorporating his ideas into this booklet, we hope to communicate them to future generations.” The A4-size booklet contains 88 pages. The organization will print 250 copies and donate the booklet to public libraries in Fukuyama City and Hiroshima City, among other locations. For further information, contact Mr. Murata at 090-2002-8644.
(Originally published on June, 15, 2021)
The Japanese-German Peace Forum, a non-profit organization (NPO) based in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, has arranged the group’s activities up until the present time into a booklet. In the publication, the organization paid tribute to the late Eugen Manfred Eichhorn, chairman of the Berlin-based non-governmental organization (NGO) German-Japanese Peace Forum Berlin, Germany, who died at age 75 in May 2020 from COVID-19. The Japan forum and the German forum organizations have continued to communicate at the grassroots level since 1987.
Members of the organizations take turns visiting each other’s country nearly every year. As such, they have been able to reinforce their ideas about peace by listening to the experiences of concerned individuals in the A-bombed city of Hiroshima and at former concentration camps where Jewish people were once imprisoned, among other activities. The late Mr. Eichhorn, a former professor at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, put tremendous effort in the anti-nuclear movement, which included his work to initiate the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Course” at his university.
The booklet introduces the history of peace exchanges between the organizations using photographs. Also listed are condolences from the Japanese-German Peace Forum members to the late Mr. Eichhorn: “We will never forget you, a man of action” and “Your witty remarks remain in my heart.”
Tamio Murata, 73, a resident of Akasaka-cho in Fukuyama City and a representative of the Japanese-German Peace Forum, said about Mr. Eichhorn, “He valued interaction with A-bomb survivors and visited Japan numerous times. By incorporating his ideas into this booklet, we hope to communicate them to future generations.” The A4-size booklet contains 88 pages. The organization will print 250 copies and donate the booklet to public libraries in Fukuyama City and Hiroshima City, among other locations. For further information, contact Mr. Murata at 090-2002-8644.
(Originally published on June, 15, 2021)
