The City of Coventry has received a special gift from both Hiroshima and the Embassy of Japan to the United Kingdom. School students in Hiroshima have handcrafted 1,000 multi-coloured origami cranes that will form “trees of peace” that will tour … Continue reading →
On 6 August 2023, Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation organised the annual Hiroshima Commemoration in Coventry Cathedral on the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the world’s first atomic bomb. More details below. Manjit Kaur, Member of … Continue reading →
14th September 2022 Mayor Kazumi Matsui Japan Dear Mayor Matsui, It is my pleasure to send you our City’s greetings as you honour us with the annual Hiroshima Coventry Day. I am so pleased that this year you are able … Continue reading →
COVENTRY HIROSHIMA REMEMBRANCE 2022 is an active witness when we commemorate the enormity of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on 6th August 2022, and strengthen our on-going friendship with the people of Hiroshima and Japan, all of us … Continue reading →
Every year on August 6, the City of Hiroshima holds a Peace Memorial Ceremony to pray for the peaceful repose of the victims, for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and for lasting world peace. During that ceremony, the Mayor issues … Continue reading →
Video of event in Coventry Cathedral on 6 August 2021 to Commemorate the 76 anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Organised by Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation. Featuring Councillor John McNicholas Lord Mayor of Coventry … Continue reading →
Most of the following videos have a short advertisement at the beginning. Keeping the stories of Hiroshima alive 75 years after bombing by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 6 Aug 2020, 4m:27s Seventy-five years after the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, … Continue reading →
The annual Hiroshima Commemoration organised by Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation was special in 2020 for several reasons, not least of which was that the normally large audience was restricted because of social distancing measures. However the … Continue reading →
Today, 6 August 2020, is the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first nuclear bomb which devastated the lives of hundreds of thousands. Ethical, legal and military controversies still surround this and the bombing of Nagasaki three days later. … Continue reading →
Sadako Sasaki was two years old when the Americans dropped the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. It exploded about a mile from her home in Hiroshima and she was blown out of the window by the blast. As the … Continue reading →