#Cranes For Our Future
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Join us this August 5-9 and show your support for a future without nuclear weapons.
This year, as we prepare to recognize 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world faces the biggest risk of nuclear conflict since the Cold War. This moment demands heroes and far-sighted leaders to pull the world back from the brink and calls for all of us to join the world's most visible demonstration for a future free from nuclear weapons.
About #CranesForOurFuture
CranesForOurFuture is an annual campaign led by the Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace（HOPe）, the prefectures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative（NTI）. Every year, we mark the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by joining with others around the world to demand a more peaceful future―not another arms race.
How to participate
Between August 5-9, post a picture of a paper crane with the hashtag #CranesForOurFuture on social media along with a message about what motivates you to fight for a safer, better future.
How to fold a paper crane
Message from the Survivors
Ms.SHIMADA Yoshimi（Hiroshima）
I was three years old when I was exposed to the atomic bomb in Koi-cho, Hiroshima. I vividly remember that on the morning of August 6, the day when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, my sister and I, and three other girls who were staying at my parents' house, all rushed into the futon closet and buried our heads in the futons piled up. After that, every time I hear about the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, I think of how terrible it was.
I have been thinking about what we can do to help our children and grandchildren live in a peaceful world without war and nuclear weapons, but at our age, it is difficult to take action alone. So I hope that we can all work together through the Orizuru Campaign to send our thoughts for peace to the world.
This year marks the 80th year since the atomic bombing, and Nihon Hidankyo won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. August 6 this year may be a day of change for Hiroshima as well.
Let's all mark Atomic Bomb Day in good spirits.
Mr.MARUTA Kazuo(Nagasaki）
On August 9th, 1945, 300 first-year students from Keiho Middle School, located just 800 meters from the hypocenter, left campus after their final exams. At the fate-marked moment of 11:02 AM, the atomic bomb struck. In moments, 114 students were killed. Over ten bodies of my classmates were never found.
Eighty 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 war’s end―still fills me with deep sorrow and anger.
I am told that the world today is not moving toward disarmament, but toward further nuclear armament.
As I lived through it, I believe it is not only the duty of survivors to share our experiences, but a responsibility we owe to all humanity.
We, the atomic bomb survivors of Nagasaki, must once again raise our voices and call out to the world:“Let Nagasaki be the last place to suffer an atomic bombing”!
