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The #CranesForOurFuture campaign is an initiative utilizing SNS to expand the circle of peace from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The 2025 campaign has ended. Thank you for your cooperation.
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2025 Campaign Results Report
（１）Spread on SNS
| ◆Number of posts with hashtags | approximately 800 |
| ◆Engagement count (number of likes, replies, reposts, etc. on a post) | approximately 187,000 |
| ◆Impressions (number of post views) | approximately 19 million |
*The above mentioned information represents all posts across Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube (including reels and videos).
*The number of followers of the poster is treated as the number of impressions (post views).
（２）Participation by celebrities
From Japan, the participants included members of sports teams affiliated with Sports Activation Hiroshima, TSS baseball commentator Mr. Yasuyuki Yamauchi, and cast members of TSS’s All-Out Support Sports LOVERS. The overseas participants included actors Julianne Moore, George Takei, and several others.
（３）Collaboration with the Hiroshima Prefecture Booth at the Osaka-Kansai Expo
At the Hiroshima Prefecture booth "Re:WORLD HIROSHIMA" (exhibition period: August 5–9) at the Osaka-Kansai Expo, we held a “Crane Workshop” as a collaborative campaign event.
Over 5 days, 13,808 people visited the Hiroshima Prefecture booth, of which 5,419 participated in the “Crane Workshop.”
The cranes folded by the participants will be assembled into a 1,000-crane display and later dedicated to the Peace Memorial Park.
Call to Action at the #CranesForOurFuture Campaign Launch in 2025
This year, as we prepare to recognize 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world faces the greatest risk of nuclear conflict since the Cold War. We need heroes and far-sighted leaders to pull the world back from the brink and promote the world’s most visible demonstration for a nuclear-free future.
About #CranesForOurFuture
#CranesForOurFuture is an annual campaign led by the Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace（HOPe）, Hiroshima and Nagasaki prefectures, and Nuclear Threat Initiative（NTI）. We commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki every year by joining others worldwide and demanding a more peaceful future, not another arms race.
How to participate
Between August 5 and 9, post a picture of a paper crane with the hashtag #CranesForOurFuture on SNS, along with a message about what motivates you to fight for a safer, better future.
How to fold a paper crane
Messages from the Survivors
Ms.Shimada Yoshimi（Hiroshima）
When I was 3 years old, I was exposed to the atomic bomb in Koi-cho, Hiroshima. On the morning of August 6, the day when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, me, my sister, and another girl staying at my parents' house rushed into the futon closet and buried our heads in the piled-up futons. Since then, every time I hear about a devastation due to the atomic bomb, I think of how terrible it was.
I wonder how we can help our children and grandchildren live peacefully in a world without war and nuclear weapons; however, at our age, it is difficult to take action alone. Through the Orizuru Campaign, we can all work together to promote peace to the world.
This year marks the 80th year since the atomic bombing, and Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. This year, August 6 can be a day of change for Hiroshima.
Let us all mark the day in good spirits.
Mr.Maruta Kazuo(Nagasaki）
On August 9, 1945, 300 1st-year students from the Keiho Middle School, located 800 m from the hypocenter, left campus after their final exams. At the fate-marked moment of 11:02 AM, the atomic bomb was dropped. In a few moments, 114 students were killed. Over 10 bodies of my classmates were never found.
At present, 80 years have passed, but the loss of my 12- and 13-year-old classmates killed in a city that was not even a battlefield, just days before the end of the war, still fills me with deep sorrow and anger.
The current world is not moving toward disarmament but further nuclear armament.
Because I lived through it, it is the survivors' duty to share their experiences—a responsibility we owe to humanity.
We, the atomic bomb survivors of Nagasaki, must raise our voices and call out to the world: "Let Nagasaki be the last place to suffer an atomic bombing"!
