No More Hiroshima & Nagasaki! The Prophecy. Produced and Presented by The Commitee of Japenese Citizens to Send Photographic and Pictorial Record of the Atomic Bombing to the Children and All Human Beings of the World. This film was made possible through the efforts and contributions of tens of thousands of participants of the TEN- FEET Capmaign. It is a powerful telling of the horrendous disaster of the August 1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. It was a bit touch and go for Hiroshima officials, but the atomic bomb memorial park in the western Japanese city is now Pokemon No. The city had asked the developer of the popular 'Pokemon Go'' smartphone game to. No more Hiroshima 1945. I visited that area on the Hiroshima day of 1999). No More Hiroshima is a 1984 National Film Board of Canada documentary about two survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, who are among a small group of Japanese who risk ostracism in their country by identifying. No More Hiroshima, no more Nagasaki - Duration: 6:44. Obama Mourns Dead In Hiroshima, Calls For World Without Nuclear Arms 'Amongst those nations like my own that own nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them,' he said. The release of Pokemon GO last month ushered in the biggest mobile app craze the world has ever seen. In just a few weeks, the addictive app broke all sorts of mobile download records while simultaneously turning. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and countless more died slowly of radiation. Only a few are still alive to tell the story. In No More Hiroshima, No More Nagasaki, we meet remaining survivors of the world’s first and only nuclear war and hear their heart- wrenching stories. We watch images as the survivors describe in detail their personal experiences while on the very ground when the atomic bombs where dropped in the two cities. Survivors of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known as Hibakusha. The only visual record of those first moments of horror on the ground is in the artwork created by Hibakusha. Almost nothing remains to show us the Hiroshima and Nagasaki that existed before the atomic bombs devastated their lives. Images of this artwork haunt the screen as we listen to the Hibakusha tell us their story how through survival comes the courage to live. And their message is the same; peace must prevail with the lessons learnt from this colossal human force of war and destruction. Poem by Mohammad Abedin. No more Hiroshima: (Every year on August 6, Japanese people observe the Hiroshima day by releasing hundreds of.The heartbreaking images of loss brought back vivid memories of a visit to Japan last August. Originally I had not thought of my trip as a pilgrimage, but that was what it became. This proud son of a World War II veteran of the Pacific theater embarked on a journey of sorrow and hope to a country I knew little about. The church of Japan was marking the Ten Days of Peace, which begin each year on the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. It was a bit touch and go for Hiroshima officials, but the atomic bomb memorial park in the western Japanese city is now Pokemon No. This short documentary depicts the stories of two hibakusha, survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This film follows them on their mission to. In an instant those bombings took the lives of over 2. Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, the archbishop of Nagasaki, had invited me to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki in my capacity as director of the Office of International Justice and Peace of the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Archbishop Takami is a kind man who radiates the peace he seeks to build. The archbishop was in his mother’s womb in Nagasaki at the time of the bombing. He lost family members the morning of August 9, 1. But he also found something—a passionate commitment to peace and a world without nuclear weapons. This is the paradox of Nagasaki and Hiroshima: people have turned the agonizing pain of the events of 1. Just consider the names of places in both cities: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Museum, the Children’s Peace Memorial, the Peace Bells, Hiroshima Memorial Cathedral for World Peace, Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims. The examples go on and on. Testimony to Horror. At the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Miyoko Matsubara, a hibakusha or atomic bomb survivor, offered a moving testimony. This frail woman, speaking in labored tones due to a stroke, gave witness to her experience as a 1. Hiroshima on August 6, 1. Only 5. 0 of the 2. One of her companions perished as they struggled toward safety; she still feels guilty for not being able to help her friend. Scarred and a victim of discrimination, Miyoko painted a haunting picture of devastation and desperation. Despite her experience, she spoke of the kindness of Americans she later met. By her own account, she came to recognize that the real enemies were war and nuclear weapons. Miyoko’s story reminded me of that of another girl, Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was two years old at the time of the bombing of Hiroshima. Ten years later, like so many others who died of radiation illnesses, she contracted leukemia. Following a Japanese tradition, she set out to fold 1,0. Sadly, she died at age twelve, but inspired by her story each year countless paper cranes are folded in the memory of the victims of the bombings. They are displayed all over Hiroshima and Nagasaki as signs of hope for world peace and a world without nuclear weapons. At the Children’s Peace Memorial we watched a group of smiling Japanese kindergarten children arrive with their brilliantly colored cranes. Tears came to my eyes, remembering images of the incinerated kindergarteners of 1. In the faces of these very lively children there was hope for a different future. That hope was also evident in high school students from Hiroshima and Okinawa who were collecting signatures on a petition for peace and nuclear disarmament in the shadow of the Hiroshima ruins. Last year they collected 4. Their message was simple: “No more Hiroshima. No more Nagasaki.” Another sign of hope was a meeting of students from South Korea and Japan at the Catholic Center in Nagasaki, where they were building bridges of understanding between former enemies. The situation in Japan should not be idealized. As we marched from the Hiroshima Peace Park to the Cathedral for Mass on the eve of the anniversary, some groups shouted counter messages, which my translators were embarassed to translate, but these hecklers were a small minority. More troubling was learning that the majority of people in Japan, like the majority of Americans, are uninformed or apathetic on issues of nuclear disarmament and peace. While thousands take part in memorial events and peace activities, many more thousands go about their daily lives without much thought to the events of 1. I wonder if the Fukushima crisis will shift more attention to the dangers of nuclear proliferation. This apathy makes the mission of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that much more important for the people of Japan, the United States and the world. As I said to youth gathered for a concert sponsored by the Archdiocese of Nagasaki’s Justice and Peace Commission, “The young people of Japan have a special mission to keep the memories of Nagasaki and Hiroshima alive. The world needs to be reminded.”From Suffering to Peace. In addition to destroying Urakami Cathedral, the bombing of Nagasaki devastated a Christian community that had kept the faith in the face of great persecution. In 1. 55. 0 Saint Francis Xavier sowed the needs of Christianity in Japan. The church flourished in Nagasaki until the faith was outlawed for two and a half centuries. When Japan reopened itself to the world in 1. Christians were discovered, descendants of an underground church. Perhaps it was this experience that helped the church in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to turn their terrible suffering into a mission of peace. Those who died in the bombings were victims of war, but their memories are being kept alive in a way that makes them martyrs to the greater cause of a world free of the nuclear threat. The church in Japan works with other religious traditions and many people of goodwill. Though Christians make up just . The liturgies I attended in both cities were spiritually moving and the singing was vibrant. The commitment to peace was evident—in prayers, on posters and banners, in the veneration given to a scorched head of a Statue of Mary, the only piece of the once magnificent high altar of Urakami Cathedral to have survived the atomic blast. In several presentations, I was asked to share the work of the church in our own country and the teaching of our bishops on nuclear disarmament. In my reflections, I quoted Cardinal Francis George, former President of the U. S. C. C. B.: The horribly destructive capacity of nuclear arms makes them disproportionate and indiscriminate weapons that endanger human life and dignity like no other armaments. Senate ratified the New START Treaty to reduce U. S. Now the Senate must take the next step and ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Longer term, our nation should work for a world free of the nuclear threat, but we also need to embrace the sorrow that is necessary to ensure that we remain faithful to that task. Without that sorrow, there is no possibility of finding a way to repudiate future use of nuclear weapons..”Last year, Archbishop Leo Jun Ikenaga, president of the Japan Bishops' Conference, reminded the Catholics of his nation: “In the Peace Message After 6. Years from the End of World War II, the bishops of Japan stated, . We believe that to do this will be to promise not to repeat the tragedy and also to commit oneself to the future.’ To courageously admit one's failures and implore forgiveness before God is not to belittle oneself, but rather to approach the real human figure as Christ desires.” If the bishops of Japan can call their people to repentance, perhaps U. S. Catholics can respond to the call of the bishops to express sorrow for the deaths of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In doing so, we need not “belittle” or minimize the sacrifices of those, like my father, who served our nation and a just cause with honor. My pilgrimage to Japan was one of both sorrow and hope. I grieved for the many lives lost in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and for the people killed on both sides during the war. But I also found hope in the people of Japan who are working to bring about a world free of nuclear weapons.
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