November 12, 2009: Regional Training (Day 5)
Visit: Peace Memorial Museum and Peace Memorial Park
Training Report - Leadership Development Course
64 years ago, Hiroshima suffered the world's first atomic bombing. To prevent repetition of such
tragedy, the city has sought ever since to covey the facts of the bombing to the world. Website of
the City of Hiroshima:
http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/shimin/heiwa/peaceenglish.html
Hundreds of thousands of people were exposed to the A-Bomb in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Despite the tragedy of mankind, innumerable people were still injured or lost their precious lives because of wars or conflicts all over the world. To learn “Disability and War/Conflict,” nine participants visited Hiroshima and today they came to observe the Peace Memorial Museum located inside the Peace Memorial Park.
In the museum participants were guided and received the explanation by three Peace Volunteers
who belong to the museum.
They first showed participants the deformed objects such as bottles and roof tiles, melted by the
strong heat of the atomic bomb.
Not only participants with visual impairment but others were also allowed to touch them so that
they could feel the power of A-bomb.
Then they were divided into three groups to tour the museum. It took them to three hours to see
both inside and outside of the museum.
However it was a valuable opportunity for all the participants to think deeply about importance of
peace and they all resolved not to possess any nuclear weapons in respective countries.
Story of Sadako: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki
