One month since the closing of the Hiroshima Summit Museum’s guestbooks signed by G7 leaders to be released as early as this summer in Peace Park
Jun. 21, 2023
by Koji Higuchi and Kana Kobayashi, Staff Writers
Regarding Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum’s guestbooks where leaders attending the summit meeting of G7 (Group of seven industrialized nations) left their personal messages, it has been learned coordination is being made among organizations concerned over its release this summer. The exhibition site is expected to be in Peace Memorial Park located in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward. As the calendar turned to June 21, it has now been one month since the closing of the summit. Various efforts to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons and wishes for peace that the leaders of the G7 countries left in the A-bombed city of Hiroshima, will continue to be made.
According to multiple sources involved, consideration is being made so the guestbooks will be released by August 6, the day of the atomic bombing, when many people will visit Hiroshima from home and abroad. The International Conference Center Hiroshima and other locations in Peace Memorial Park are said to be mentioned as possible candidate exhibition sites.
The leaders of the G7 countries made a tour of the Peace Memorial Museum located in Peace Memorial Park on May 19, the first day of the summit. U.S. President Joe Biden wrote in the guest book, “Together let us continue to make progress toward the day when we can finally and forever rid the world of nuclear weapons.” U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, citing the words of British playwright William Shakespeare, wrote, “But what we can say, with all our hearts and all our souls, is no more,” referring to the suffering of the A-bomb survivors.
The City of Hiroshima and the Rotary Clubs in Hiroshima are planning to commission the creation of a monument inscribed with the messages left by the G7 leaders in the museum’s guestbook and place it in Hijiyama Hill Park in Minami Ward.
It is customary for dignitaries who visit the Peace Memorial Museum to write personal messages in the museum’s guestbook. Barack Obama, who was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in May 2016, wrote, “Let us now find the courage, together, to spread peace, and pursue a world without nuclear weapons.” His message has been displayed in the museum since June of that year.
(Originally published on June 21, 2023)
Regarding Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum’s guestbooks where leaders attending the summit meeting of G7 (Group of seven industrialized nations) left their personal messages, it has been learned coordination is being made among organizations concerned over its release this summer. The exhibition site is expected to be in Peace Memorial Park located in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward. As the calendar turned to June 21, it has now been one month since the closing of the summit. Various efforts to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons and wishes for peace that the leaders of the G7 countries left in the A-bombed city of Hiroshima, will continue to be made.
According to multiple sources involved, consideration is being made so the guestbooks will be released by August 6, the day of the atomic bombing, when many people will visit Hiroshima from home and abroad. The International Conference Center Hiroshima and other locations in Peace Memorial Park are said to be mentioned as possible candidate exhibition sites.
The leaders of the G7 countries made a tour of the Peace Memorial Museum located in Peace Memorial Park on May 19, the first day of the summit. U.S. President Joe Biden wrote in the guest book, “Together let us continue to make progress toward the day when we can finally and forever rid the world of nuclear weapons.” U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, citing the words of British playwright William Shakespeare, wrote, “But what we can say, with all our hearts and all our souls, is no more,” referring to the suffering of the A-bomb survivors.
The City of Hiroshima and the Rotary Clubs in Hiroshima are planning to commission the creation of a monument inscribed with the messages left by the G7 leaders in the museum’s guestbook and place it in Hijiyama Hill Park in Minami Ward.
It is customary for dignitaries who visit the Peace Memorial Museum to write personal messages in the museum’s guestbook. Barack Obama, who was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in May 2016, wrote, “Let us now find the courage, together, to spread peace, and pursue a world without nuclear weapons.” His message has been displayed in the museum since June of that year.
(Originally published on June 21, 2023)
