10 young officials from member cities of Mayors for Peace learn about Hiroshima
Aug. 27, 2016
by Kyosuke Mizukawa, Staff Writer
A training program for young officials from member cities of Mayors for Peace, designed to learn about Hiroshima, began on August 26. The program has been organized for the first time by Mayors for Peace with the aim of encouraging local municipalities to devise policies to promote peace. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui serves as president of this organization.
Ten cities in eight prefectures have sent one of their employees to this program. The participants are between the ages of 30 and 41. At the International Conference Center Hiroshima, a staff member of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation made a presentation on the city’s policies including its program for training ordinary citizens to hand down the accounts of A-bomb survivors as “memory keepers” and the subsidy system for preserving buildings that survived the atomic bombings.
The participants visited the A-bomb Dome guided by a Peace Volunteer of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. They also attended an intensive course of lectures on peace building at the Hiroshima Peace Institute at Hiroshima City University.
They will also listen to the account of an A-bomb survivor before their training program concludes on August 28. Taro Yamashita, 34, from Mitaka, Tokyo, is in charge of promoting peace, women, and internationalization for his municipality. He said, “People who experienced the war are aging, and how to hand down their experiences is a challenge for the City of Mitaka, too. I would like to learn from the policy measures carried out by the City of Hiroshima.”
(Originally published on August 27, 2016)
A training program for young officials from member cities of Mayors for Peace, designed to learn about Hiroshima, began on August 26. The program has been organized for the first time by Mayors for Peace with the aim of encouraging local municipalities to devise policies to promote peace. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui serves as president of this organization.
Ten cities in eight prefectures have sent one of their employees to this program. The participants are between the ages of 30 and 41. At the International Conference Center Hiroshima, a staff member of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation made a presentation on the city’s policies including its program for training ordinary citizens to hand down the accounts of A-bomb survivors as “memory keepers” and the subsidy system for preserving buildings that survived the atomic bombings.
The participants visited the A-bomb Dome guided by a Peace Volunteer of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. They also attended an intensive course of lectures on peace building at the Hiroshima Peace Institute at Hiroshima City University.
They will also listen to the account of an A-bomb survivor before their training program concludes on August 28. Taro Yamashita, 34, from Mitaka, Tokyo, is in charge of promoting peace, women, and internationalization for his municipality. He said, “People who experienced the war are aging, and how to hand down their experiences is a challenge for the City of Mitaka, too. I would like to learn from the policy measures carried out by the City of Hiroshima.”
(Originally published on August 27, 2016)
