Hiroshima Peace Ceremony
The Hiroshima Peace Ceremony ( Japanese 広 島 平和 記念 式 典 , Hiroshima heiwa kinenshikiten ) is a memorial event to commemorate those killed in the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . It has taken place every year since 1947 on August 6th in front of the cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Park . a. a minute's silence at 8:15 a.m. local time before - the time Little Boy detonated.
With Ban Ki-Moon , a Secretary General of the United Nations took part in the Hiroshima Peace Ceremony for the first time in 2010 . This was also the first time that a US diplomatic representative, Ambassador John Victor Roos, was present.
Web links
- Hiroshima City website: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Donald W. Shriver Jr .: A Memory and A Hope: Hiroshima After a Quarter Century , published in Education Foundation of Nuclear Science (ed.): Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , September 1970 edition, Chicago, p. 32 at Google books (English), last accessed on August 8, 2010
- ↑ Focus Online : Hiroshima commemorates the nuclear attack (August 6, 2010), last accessed on August 8, 2010