Peace Night Game Hiroshima held at Mazda stadium on August 6, appreciating everyday life in which people can enjoy baseball
Aug. 7, 2023
by Takuya Nakatsuma, Staff Writer
On August 6, Peace Night Game 2023, in which an appeal was made for peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons, took place at Mazda stadium in Hiroshima’s Minami Ward. Players from the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, the professional baseball team, wore a badge featuring the A-bomb Dome and the pigeon on their uniform’s sleeve, and played a game against the Yomiuri Giants.
When the bottom half of the game’s fifth inning ended, the stadium’s spectators held a special newspaper colored either in green or red in unison. Those sitting in seats placed at a height of 25 meters, the same height of the A-bomb Dome, held the newspaper in red, showing “the peace line.” Mayu Seto, 32, a third-generation A-bomb survivor and singer and songwriter, threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
This special game was organized by the team, Co-op Hiroshima, the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, the Hiroshima Electric Railway, RCC Broadcasting, and the Chugoku Shimbun. It has been held around August 6 every year since 2008, and marked its 16th anniversary this year. Kimio Shimizu, 48, a company employee from Iwakuni City who watched the game with his family of four, said, “This is the day we can recognize anew the preciousness of peace and our everyday life in which we can support the Carp.”
(Originally published on August 7, 2023)
On August 6, Peace Night Game 2023, in which an appeal was made for peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons, took place at Mazda stadium in Hiroshima’s Minami Ward. Players from the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, the professional baseball team, wore a badge featuring the A-bomb Dome and the pigeon on their uniform’s sleeve, and played a game against the Yomiuri Giants.
When the bottom half of the game’s fifth inning ended, the stadium’s spectators held a special newspaper colored either in green or red in unison. Those sitting in seats placed at a height of 25 meters, the same height of the A-bomb Dome, held the newspaper in red, showing “the peace line.” Mayu Seto, 32, a third-generation A-bomb survivor and singer and songwriter, threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
This special game was organized by the team, Co-op Hiroshima, the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, the Hiroshima Electric Railway, RCC Broadcasting, and the Chugoku Shimbun. It has been held around August 6 every year since 2008, and marked its 16th anniversary this year. Kimio Shimizu, 48, a company employee from Iwakuni City who watched the game with his family of four, said, “This is the day we can recognize anew the preciousness of peace and our everyday life in which we can support the Carp.”
(Originally published on August 7, 2023)
