Live in Hiroshima

Yushin Toda of Japan Desk Scotland helps people make origami cranes for Hiroshima during a previous exhibition.

People in Glasgow will have a unique opportunity to hear a survivor of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima in a live link with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Tuesday 1 November.
From 10am till 11.30am the link will be open between Glasgow University’s Interfaith Chapel (entered off  The Square on campus) and the Hiroshima which was incinerated on August 6, 1945 when between 90,000 and 166,000 people died.
The live conversation is free and open to the public. It will launch the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bombs Photo Exhibition.  This exhibition will run till the January 31, 2012. The person who will be interviewed in the live link is Mr Keijiro Matsushima, a retired Head Teacher of a junior high school who was 16 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
The exhibition is organised by Japan Desk Scotland, with financial support from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Earlier this year the Japan Desk Scotland held a highly successful exhibition in the Mitchell Library showing the story of Sadako A Girl from Hiroshima. During the course of that exhibition, people were invited to learn to make paper cranes using origami – the paper folding art form. Those cranes were sent to the Children’s Peace Monument in Hiroshima which receives around a million a year from people around the world who reflect on the terrible time when that city and Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bombs. That exhibition was visited by the Consul General of Japan in Edinburgh, Mr Masataka Tarahara.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum coordinates international public engagement on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For further information, please contact Japan Desk Scotland at japandeskscotland@googlemail.com