One of the objectives of the display planned for Pearl Harbor is changing how U.S. To coincide with his visit, a local group of former residents of Hiroshima Prefecture committed to cooperating to organize an event marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui traveled to Honolulu last summer to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the cities' friendship. On top of that, Hiroshima and Honolulu are sister cities. In June last year, a paper crane created by Sadako Sasaki, who died of leukemia at age 12 a decade following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, was donated to the U.S. Michael Carr, president of the USS Missouri Memorial Association, and Kenji Shiga, then director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, visited each other's facilities in 2017 and agreed to boost further cooperation. The latest show is now under way in Los Angeles.Īt the Battleship Missouri Memorial, the farewell note of a kamikaze pilot and other articles were previously displayed. Starting in Washington, D.C., the display has been held on 59 occasions in 51 cities in 19 countries, including nuclear weapon-possessing Russia, France and India. Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been organizing exhibitions to show the inhumanity of nuclear weaponry since 1995 in foreign countries. The landmark event has become a reality owing to the two Japanese cities' active efforts to share lessons from the catastrophe. Hibakusha atomic bomb survivors will also give talks of their experiences. While what will be displayed has yet to be decided, 20 items from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, such as images of the bombed-out ruins and badly burned survivors as well as clothing of victims and a melted cross, are under consideration. Following the one at the Battleship Missouri Memorial, a similar exhibit is planned to be held at the University of Hawaii at Hilo through early October. The exhibition will run from early July through September, according to Hiroshima city. "Holding an atomic bomb display at the iconic site of Pearl Harbor has great significance, and I hope the event will provide an opportunity to present facts objectively." "One person told me in the United States that the atomic bombings were the price for the Pearl Harbor attack, but I explained their differences and the guy understood it," Tanaka said.
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Terumi Tanaka, 87, a senior official of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, said he expects the planned exhibit to help deepen the understanding of the atomic bombings among Americans. 2, 1945, following the dropping of the two nuclear bombs. 7, 1941, and ended after Tokyo signed the surrender agreement on the deck of the USS Missouri on Sept. The Pacific War broke out when Japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. "We will show exhibits that can present the terrifying aspects of warfare." "It will have a historic importance to organize the event at the symbolic site of Pearl Harbor," said Takuo Takigawa, director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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It will be held on the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs, and the first at the battleship, on which Japan officially surrendered to end World War II.
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Officials of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hope an upcoming exhibition at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Honolulu showing the devastation unleashed by the atomic bombs will "convey the significance of peace beyond nationalities."