Hello everyone,
We are the students from The Thousand Crane Club. During the summer, we continued our endeavors forpeace by participating in multiple local events. Through those events, we were able to realize how
grateful we are to have connections with the local community and the importance of working together toachieve a common goal. Here are some highlights from our activities:
July 19th - Creating Bottle Decorations for the Water Offering Event
We gathered to decorate 120 bottles for the water
offering ceremony on August 6th. At first, it waschallenging for us to come up with creative designs
that represent peace and Hiroshima. As weimproved, we started using materials other thanpaper such as yarn, ribbons, and cloths. In the end,
we were able to make 52 decorations in 3 hours andthe rest were completed as summer holiday
homework.

July 27th - Visiting Mayor Kazumi Matsui
We visited Mayor Kazumi Matsui of Hiroshima City at the city hall to hand over the newly published"Hiroshima no Kokoro 4 (Spirit of Hiroshima 4)". This book was created by the students from schools
and organizations around Hiroshima and we were part of this project as well. At the event, Sato-san andMayor Matsui expressed the significance of us, the younger generations, to understand the past, takeactions by ourselves, and pass them on to future generations.

August 4th - ‘Orizuru no Kiseki’ Preview Event‘Orizuru no Kiseki’ is a documentary tracing
the life of Sadako Sasaki, a victim of theatomic bombing who folded a thousand paper
cranes hoping that she would recover fromleukemia. As the number of a-bomb survivors
is decreasing every year, Mr. Masahiro Sasaki(Sadako’s brother) and Yuji Sasaki (Sadako’snephew) decided to film this documentary tocommunicate Hiroshima’s story to the nextgeneration. We got a sneak peek into thisheartfelt documentary and we are very excited
to watch it in the theaters next year.
We also had the opportunity to listen to a live
talk session with Mr. Clifton Truman Daniel, the grandson of Harry Truman who was the president of theUnited States when the a-bomb was dropped in Hiroshima. He shared that the suffering of war is always
experienced by both sides and his grandfather told him that he dropped the a-bomb to save Japanese andAmerican lives. Seeing the friendly exchanges between The Sasaki Family and Mr. Daniel, we once again
thought that the act of forgiveness is the key to peace.

August 6th - Water Offering Ceremony
The 献水 (Kensui) ceremony was organized by Ms. Morimoto who thought that offering water instead offlowers (known as 献花) would be more appropriate for the souls of deceased victims who died of
seeking water after the atomic bombing. We filled 120 bottles with water from the Mitaki Temple andplaced the bottle decorations that we made on July 19th. We offered water with our prayers in various
locations near the Peace Memorial Park. On our water offering journey, we encountered many monuments
and statues around the city that we would have never noticed before. Please enjoy this video explaining
more about the event.

​We would like to thank our teachers, parents, and other members of the school community for yourcontinued support for The Thousand Crane Club. We are looking forward to new exciting experiences andhaving a larger impact in our community this school year!