Minister of Angola visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Nov. 9, 2015
by Takuya Nakatsuma, Staff Writer
João Baptista Kussumua, the minister of Assistance and Social Reinsertion for the Republic of Angola, located in southern Africa, visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on October 24.
Kenji Shiga, the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, served as Mr. Kussumua’s guide. The minister studied the panoramic model which shows the cityscape of Hiroshima in the aftermath of the atomic bombing and photos of the mushroom cloud that rose above the city. He also came to a halt in front of figures which represent A-bomb survivors. Mr. Kussumua, writing in Portuguese, said in the museum’s guest book that he hopes what happened in Hiroshima will never be repeated and he praised Japan’s economic growth since the war.
Mr. Kussumua is visiting Japan at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. He offered flowers at the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims and listened to the account conveyed by Takashi Teramoto, 80, an A-bomb survivor and a resident of Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture.
(Originally published on October 25, 2015)
João Baptista Kussumua, the minister of Assistance and Social Reinsertion for the Republic of Angola, located in southern Africa, visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on October 24.
Kenji Shiga, the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, served as Mr. Kussumua’s guide. The minister studied the panoramic model which shows the cityscape of Hiroshima in the aftermath of the atomic bombing and photos of the mushroom cloud that rose above the city. He also came to a halt in front of figures which represent A-bomb survivors. Mr. Kussumua, writing in Portuguese, said in the museum’s guest book that he hopes what happened in Hiroshima will never be repeated and he praised Japan’s economic growth since the war.
Mr. Kussumua is visiting Japan at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. He offered flowers at the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims and listened to the account conveyed by Takashi Teramoto, 80, an A-bomb survivor and a resident of Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture.
(Originally published on October 25, 2015)
