A very rare rainy August 6. Anniversary of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima.
Every year, many people from all over the world gather
to commemmorate that tragic day and vow for a world free from nuclear weapons.
(Photo: Peace March Journals)
August 4, 2014. Peace Marchers on the stage of the Opening Plenary of
2014 World Conference Against A and H Bombs!
(Photo: Peace March Journals on FB)
We join all in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in remembering the people who died and suffered from the nuclear bombings. We also remember all victims of nuclear test bombings (Marshall Islands, US, China, Russia (Kazakhstan), India (Rajasthan), Polynesia...), and uranium weapons since Aug 6 and Aug 9, 1945. And join their united call for a world free of nuclear weapons, and for peace.
More about Peace March:
The National Peace March is a campaign for a world free from nuclear weapons while walking across Japan literally while calling ‘No more Hiroshima! No more Nagasaki! No more nuclear weapons!’ It starts on May 6 from different prefectures in Japan and converging in Hiroshima on August 4.See the great photos and read the inspiring entries about everyday Okinawan and Japanese people working for peace and a world without nuclear weapons at Peace March Journals.
The Peace March started on June of 1958 when a Buddhist monk walked from the atomic bomb site in the Hiroshima Peace Park all the way to the World Conference in Tokyo covering a distance of 1000 kilometers. As he passed through several prefectures, many people joined him each day and the delegation became very big when they reached Tokyo.
For more than half a century already, the Peace March has been done every year without a break. Rain or shine more than 1000,000 marchers pass through more than 70% of municipalities in all of Japan’s prefectures each year. Anyone with the wish for the abolition of nuclear weapons is very much welcome to join.
Konnichiwa! Heiwa koushin desu! Hello, this is the Peace March!
August 5, 2015. Hiroshima.
(Photo: Peace March Journals on FB)
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