As the domestic kickoff event for the ‘The Hibakusha's Journey’ project—a five-year plan through 2030 to hold the World Hibakusha Exhibition globally—the World Hibakusha Exhibition will be held at the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum from Tuesday, July 7 to Sunday, July 19, 2026.

We will prepare related events going forward, collaborating with local groups to make this a fruitful event.

On Sunday, March 30, friends of the Earth will gather, along with A-bomb survivors, for a parade through Aoyama and Omotesando, Tokyo to celebrate the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo)!

This year, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, as well as the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

During this period, the world experienced were several periods of heightened nuclear tension, but the fact that nuclear weapons have never been used in a war is thanks to the Hibakusha, who have continued to share their experiences with the world.

Let us enjoy walking through the streets of Shibuya to show our gratitude to these hibakusha!

Costumes are OK!

Playing musical instruments is OK!

Dancing is also OK!

Let us parade with free expression each person's message for a world filled with love and peace, without nuclear weapons or war!

And let us rejoice in life and play the harmony of life!

About “Celebrate! LOVE & PEACE Parade 2025 in TOKYO in commemoration of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo): Hello Friends of the Earth”

＜Outline of Event>

Date: 

March 30, 2025 (Sun.) 14:00 start (rain or shine)

Parade Route (tentative):

United Nations University → Aoyama Street → Omotesando Street → Yoyogi Park (about 2.5km) (tentative).  ※ Finish at 15:30

Group/Individual Entry Method

https://x.gd/N1Gvm

Please fill out the entry form and submit.

Groups will have their group name, etc. posted on the website, etc.

Operation and Cooperation Fee (Chip-in format)

We ask for a minimum donation of 500 yen per person.

*People under 18 years old, people over 80 years old, and family members of A-bomb survivors, and refugees can participate in the event without paying the operation & cooperation fee.

The operational participation fee will be collected at the reception desk on the day of the event in exchange for a certificate of participation (special badge).

The money will be used to cover the cost of arranging bus transportation for A-bomb survivors, insurance, printing, and other operating expenses.

We welcome those who cannot participate in the event, but would like to support the event with a donation!

Organizers

Earth Day Tokyo / LOVE & PEACE Parade 2025 Executive Committee

Supporting and Cooperating Organizations

NPO PEACE DAY / Earth Day Japan Network / Earth Day Tokyo 2025 Executive Committee / Citizens' Gathering for the 311 Great East Japan Earthquake / Japan Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons / Inochi no Matsuri (Festival of Life) Executive Committee / NPO Earth Caravan / NPO World Hibakusha Exhibition / BE-IN Tokyo , etc.

＞＞Love & Peace Parade Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/love369peace/

>Inquiries about the Love & Peace Parade

[email protected]

> > Parade entry form

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1Myq0HTY8JlsYZCoaKO_zly_XRsCNmqaAomNCzSTJmusa8g/viewform

Dates: August 6, 2013 – September 8, 2013 (closed Mondays)
Hours : 10:00am - 5:00pm (starts at 1:00 on the opening day)
Location: Kyoto Shokoku-j Jotenkaku Museum
Address: 701 Sokokuji, Monzen-cho, Imadegawakarasuma Higashiiru Agaru, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto City 602-0898
Telephone : 075-241-0423
Access: Subway Karasuma Line to "Imadegawa Station".Kyoto City Bus to "DoshishaMae".
Entrance: Free (entrance fees charged for Jotenkakuji museum exhibitions)

In June 2012, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is hosting

the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development（Rio＋20）,

to mark the 20^th anniversary of the Earth Summit held in 1992.

During the period between 16^th June and 22^nd June,

we are showing the World Hibakusha Exhibition (No More Hibakusha)

with OWABI (apologies) as part of the Future Territories,

a series of events, which run concurrently with the conference,

organised by citizens’ groups the world over.

We have made dove-shaped handmade cards using recycled milk cartons.

You, who have come to see our exhibition, can write your message of love.

The messages will be displayed at the World Hibakusha Exhibition (No More Hibakusha)

wherever it goes in the world. Your message will also be posted on our website

where it will be seen worldwide.

Doves were once used to carry messages for military purposes,

but now, they carry people’s messages of hope from all over the world and

fly freely across borders – conveying the hope that one day the world will be nuclear-free.

• 6^th – 10^th June 2012 Ooma Town, Aomori, Japan

Exhibited photos of world hibakushas, showing the horrors of radiation, in Ooma Town,

where a new nuclear power plant was, and still is, being built.

• 27^th May 2012 Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Showed hibakusha photos at a citizens’ forum,

“Setagaya Energy Shift – Classroom for Our Future”, in Setagaya.

• 11^th March 2012 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

A small hibakusha photo exhibition as part of an anti-nuclear power event

organised by young people, to commemorate the first anniversary of the 3/11 earthquake,

tsunami and nuclear disaster in Eastern Japan, at a music club in Shibuya.

• 14^th – 15^th January 2012 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Took part in the first Global Conference for a Nuclear Free World held atPacifico Yokohama.

Seventy hibakusha photos were displayed during the conference which was attended by

11,000 people from all over the world.

The photos were viewed with great interest, appreciation and approval by many participants

who commented,

“These photos speak to me directly about things that words cannot express”,and,

“Many more people should know the truth about hibakushas”.

• 7^th December 2011 Meguro, Tokyo, Japan

The ‘Urgent’ World Hibakusha Exhibition Forum, the first showing of hibakusha photos

by the six photographers after a six-year gap, held at Meguro Persimmon Hall,

in response to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

The event also involved lectures and presentations about the adverse effects of

radiation contamination from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe on health and

how to protectagainst them.