Yoshifumi Ishida becomes director of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Mar. 28, 2024
by Keiichi Nohira, Staff Writer
On March 27, it was announced the Hiroshima Peace Center Foundation, located in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward, would appoint Yoshifumi Ishida, 60, secretary general of the city council, as the 14th director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which is managed and operated by the foundation. Effective April 1, he will succeed director Takuo Takigawa, 65, who will retire at the end of this month.
Mr. Ishida is from Asaminami Ward and became a city employee in 1986. From April 2011 to March 2014, he served as the head of the division charged with handing down the A-bomb experience to younger generations, and he got involved in the program for training ordinary citizens to hand down the accounts of A-bomb survivors as “memory keepers” and the renovation project of the Peace Memorial Museum. He became secretary general of the city council in April 2020 and will retire from the City Hall at the end of this month.
In an interview with the Chugoku Shimbun, Mr. Ishida said, “As the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing approaches and memories of the A-bombing continue to fade, we will convey the tragedy of the A-bombing to people around the world through the exhibition.”
Effective April 1, the Hiroshima Peace Center Foundation will appoint Masahiro Urushihara, 63, executive director of the Hiroshima City Culture Foundation, to succeed Masayuki Kubo, 65, director of the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.
(Originally published on March 28, 2024)
On March 27, it was announced the Hiroshima Peace Center Foundation, located in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward, would appoint Yoshifumi Ishida, 60, secretary general of the city council, as the 14th director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which is managed and operated by the foundation. Effective April 1, he will succeed director Takuo Takigawa, 65, who will retire at the end of this month.
Mr. Ishida is from Asaminami Ward and became a city employee in 1986. From April 2011 to March 2014, he served as the head of the division charged with handing down the A-bomb experience to younger generations, and he got involved in the program for training ordinary citizens to hand down the accounts of A-bomb survivors as “memory keepers” and the renovation project of the Peace Memorial Museum. He became secretary general of the city council in April 2020 and will retire from the City Hall at the end of this month.
In an interview with the Chugoku Shimbun, Mr. Ishida said, “As the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing approaches and memories of the A-bombing continue to fade, we will convey the tragedy of the A-bombing to people around the world through the exhibition.”
Effective April 1, the Hiroshima Peace Center Foundation will appoint Masahiro Urushihara, 63, executive director of the Hiroshima City Culture Foundation, to succeed Masayuki Kubo, 65, director of the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.
(Originally published on March 28, 2024)
