Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall makes available 11,000 A-bomb accounts
Jul. 28, 2017
by Kanako Noda, Staff Writer
The Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, located in Naka Ward, will make available, starting July 28, 11,375 A-bomb accounts from people across the country that were solicited in connection with a fact-finding survey of A-bomb survivors conducted in fiscal 2015 by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The accounts submitted by A-bomb survivors in 47 prefectures have been compiled into 61 volumes and temporarily bound together. Among this total, 3,583 accounts are from people residing in the city of Hiroshima, 1,595 accounts are from those residing in other parts of Hiroshima Prefecture, 1,399 accounts are from those residing in the city of Nagasaki, and 971 accounts are from those residing in other parts of Nagasaki Prefecture. Their accounts describe the horrific conditions of the atomic bombings and their wishes for realizing a world without nuclear weapons. On July 27, employees of the hall arranged the volumes in the bookshelves in the library.
The accounts will be entered into a database and can be accessed electronically by the general public in July 2022. The hall has already compiled 92,983 accounts which were solicited in connection with surveys undertaken in 1995 and 2005.
Masaki Kano, the director of the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, said, “We can grasp the devastating consequences of the atomic bombing by bringing together all the different experiences. We would like to take to heart the ardent wishes of the elderly A-bomb survivors and keep their wishes alive.”
(Originally published on July 28, 2017)
The Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, located in Naka Ward, will make available, starting July 28, 11,375 A-bomb accounts from people across the country that were solicited in connection with a fact-finding survey of A-bomb survivors conducted in fiscal 2015 by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
The accounts submitted by A-bomb survivors in 47 prefectures have been compiled into 61 volumes and temporarily bound together. Among this total, 3,583 accounts are from people residing in the city of Hiroshima, 1,595 accounts are from those residing in other parts of Hiroshima Prefecture, 1,399 accounts are from those residing in the city of Nagasaki, and 971 accounts are from those residing in other parts of Nagasaki Prefecture. Their accounts describe the horrific conditions of the atomic bombings and their wishes for realizing a world without nuclear weapons. On July 27, employees of the hall arranged the volumes in the bookshelves in the library.
The accounts will be entered into a database and can be accessed electronically by the general public in July 2022. The hall has already compiled 92,983 accounts which were solicited in connection with surveys undertaken in 1995 and 2005.
Masaki Kano, the director of the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, said, “We can grasp the devastating consequences of the atomic bombing by bringing together all the different experiences. We would like to take to heart the ardent wishes of the elderly A-bomb survivors and keep their wishes alive.”
(Originally published on July 28, 2017)
