Excursion

Participants attended a reading of atomic bomb testimonies at the Ryo-un Building on the Kasumi Campus of Hiroshima University. Volunteer readers registered at the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall read 7 poems about the authors' family members and others close to them from a booklet. During the session, at the suggestion of one of the Asian participants, we all read the poems together, paragraph by paragraph. High school students from Hiroshima Prefecture also participated and read the poems together with the overseas participants.
Participants then visited the Orizuru Tower to view the restored Hiroshima while looking at the nearby Atomic Bomb Dome. They also folded origami cranes and threw them into the Orizuru Wall (the glass pocket on the side wall of the tower) to add to the thoughts and prayers for peace from around the world.

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