A-Bomb photo panel exhibition at Yakage-cho in Okayama Prefecture
8/9/00 
"The Atomic Bomb Photo Panel Exhibition
for Peace", sponsored by Yakage-cho,
Okayama Prefecture, opened on the 8th at
Yakage Culture Center, where it will run
until the 20th.
On display are some 60 artifacts and photo
panels borrowed from the Peace Memorial Museum
in Hiroshima. Presenting stark images of
charred corpses, skin covered by burns or
keloids, and the city in ruins, the photos
convey the horrors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
after the atomic explosions. The exhibit
includes an account of the current escalation
in nuclear testing.
In conjunction with the panel exhibition,
the Yakage library located in the Center
has set up a special corner called Atomic
Bombing Reading Materials. Browsers can choose
from among over 70 novels, collections of
testimonies, comics, and other materials
related to war and the atomic bombings.
The panel exhibition was first held in 1985,
when the town of Yakage-cho adopted its own
"Peace Declaration." This 6th exhibition
follows one in 1998. Next to the panels stands
a table with origami (colored folding paper
) on which the Peace Declaration is printed.
Visitors are encouraged to fold paper cranes,
which will be sent to Peace Memorial Park
in Hiroshima City.
[Caption] Atomic Bomb Photo Panel Exhibition now open
in Yakage Culture Center.
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