A-bomb accounts added in 12 new languages on website of National Peace Memorial Hall for A-bomb Victims
Oct. 19, 2015
by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer
The Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, located in Naka Ward, has updated its “Global Network” website with newly added A-bomb accounts and videotaped testimonies of atomic bomb survivors in 12 languages, including Arabic, on its “Other languages” page. This page makes it possible to provide contents in 20 languages. Combined with the Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean pages, which can be accessed from the homepage of the website, information on the atomic bombings is now conveyed in a total of 24 languages.
Among the other new languages added to the website are Thai, Vietnamese, Finnish, and Portuguese. In all, visitors to the website are able to access 151 A-bomb accounts and 76 videotaped testimonies.
The website has been jointly administered with the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims since 2008. The translation work has been carried out mainly by a professional translation company. In addition, some translations have been made by faculty members and student volunteers at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies in the city of Kyoto.
A staff member of the hall said, “We would like to continue providing this information in more languages to convey to the world the reality of the atomic bombings.” To visit the Global Network website, see http://www.global-peace.go.jp.
(Originally published on October 9, 2015)
The Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, located in Naka Ward, has updated its “Global Network” website with newly added A-bomb accounts and videotaped testimonies of atomic bomb survivors in 12 languages, including Arabic, on its “Other languages” page. This page makes it possible to provide contents in 20 languages. Combined with the Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean pages, which can be accessed from the homepage of the website, information on the atomic bombings is now conveyed in a total of 24 languages.
Among the other new languages added to the website are Thai, Vietnamese, Finnish, and Portuguese. In all, visitors to the website are able to access 151 A-bomb accounts and 76 videotaped testimonies.
The website has been jointly administered with the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims since 2008. The translation work has been carried out mainly by a professional translation company. In addition, some translations have been made by faculty members and student volunteers at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies in the city of Kyoto.
A staff member of the hall said, “We would like to continue providing this information in more languages to convey to the world the reality of the atomic bombings.” To visit the Global Network website, see http://www.global-peace.go.jp.
(Originally published on October 9, 2015)
