Hiroshima City to provide public organizations with free replicas of Peace Memorial Museum guestbook in which G7 leaders left messages
Sep. 15, 2023
by Masanori Wada, Staff Writer
The Hiroshima City government will offer to public organizations free replicas of the guestbook in which global leaders wrote messages after their tour of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, located in the city’s Naka Ward. The leaders were in Hiroshima to attend the summit meeting of the G7 (Group of Seven industrial nations), held in the city in May. Hiroshima City hopes the leaders’ messages about peace will be shared broadly at events aimed at the abolition of nuclear weapons, among other such gatherings.
The guestbook is made up of 18 pages. Each page of the guestbook carries one of the messages written by G7 leaders and their spouses, as well as by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who made a surprise visit to the summit. Leaders and spouses from the other nations invited to participate in the extended summit meeting, including South Korea and India, signed only their names in the guestbook.
Those eligible to receive the A4-sized guestbook replica are local governments, public-service foundations, and other organizations of a public nature. The city has established conditions by which those that receive a replica must not be affiliated with a specific political party or religious group and must show the replica to the public for peace and other related activities. Another condition is that the replica must not be used for profit. A form for application to receive a replica is available on the Hiroshima City website, and the form can be submitted by email or fax. Replicas are to be delivered by mail.
An official at the city’s peace promotion division said, “The guestbook replicas can be used for peace activities held by schools or residents associations. We’d like as many people as possible to take to heart what the global leaders were thinking at the time.” For details, call the peace promotion division at 082-242-7831.
(Originally published on September 15, 2023)
The Hiroshima City government will offer to public organizations free replicas of the guestbook in which global leaders wrote messages after their tour of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, located in the city’s Naka Ward. The leaders were in Hiroshima to attend the summit meeting of the G7 (Group of Seven industrial nations), held in the city in May. Hiroshima City hopes the leaders’ messages about peace will be shared broadly at events aimed at the abolition of nuclear weapons, among other such gatherings.
The guestbook is made up of 18 pages. Each page of the guestbook carries one of the messages written by G7 leaders and their spouses, as well as by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who made a surprise visit to the summit. Leaders and spouses from the other nations invited to participate in the extended summit meeting, including South Korea and India, signed only their names in the guestbook.
Those eligible to receive the A4-sized guestbook replica are local governments, public-service foundations, and other organizations of a public nature. The city has established conditions by which those that receive a replica must not be affiliated with a specific political party or religious group and must show the replica to the public for peace and other related activities. Another condition is that the replica must not be used for profit. A form for application to receive a replica is available on the Hiroshima City website, and the form can be submitted by email or fax. Replicas are to be delivered by mail.
An official at the city’s peace promotion division said, “The guestbook replicas can be used for peace activities held by schools or residents associations. We’d like as many people as possible to take to heart what the global leaders were thinking at the time.” For details, call the peace promotion division at 082-242-7831.
(Originally published on September 15, 2023)
