The ravaged state of buildings was particularly astonishing. And when I filmed children with atomic bomb burns, I would usually return two or three days later to find that they had died. The Nagasaki prefectural and municipal governments had been appealing for several months for the holding of the U.N. Disarmament Conference in Nagasaki in 1995 the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings. Prvoslav Davinic, director of the U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs, announced during the 1994 conference being held in Hiroshima in late May that the parties had agreed to the Nagasaki request. A project advocated by the Japanese government, the U.N. Disarmament Conference has been held in Japan every year since 1989.
Discounts are available for round-trip passengers, children, disabled persons and groups.
Among the facilities are a reading room, game room, bar, restaurant and outdoor pool. The project means the resumption of ocean transportation between the two ports after a silent interlude of half a century. But both ships were sunk during World War II and the service was discontinued.