Tocommemorate the 50th anniversary of the ending of World War IINipponzan Myohoji organized a walk from Auschwitz to Hiroshima. At the A-bomb Memorial Mound. The ashes of approximately 70,000 unidentified bodies are kept in a vault inside the burial mound. Prayers are offered to console the souls of the homeless dead. Many avoid the large public commemoration and pray here instead.
Demonstrators sit peacefully for one hour everytime a country tests a nuclear device.
This demonstration in June 1991 was against a French test in the Pacific. What is morally wrong cannot be politically right. A hibakusha is helped by a nurse. The lessons of the evil of nuclear weapons should come from its witnesses, the hibakusha . This is a heavy burden to carry on such aging and often slender shoulders.