To Consider Peace as a Personal Issue And as an Opportunity to Think About How We Can Live Together
Kindergarteners from Ayame Kindergarten in a commemorative photo on the banks of the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome. This photo appears on the cover of the booklet “Creating Peace: Remembering the 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing and Japan’s Defeat” (size B5, 97 pages), a collection of testimonies of war and the atomic bombing. The booklet was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan Hiroshima Ushita Church and Ayame Kindergarten. I asked Nishijima Yoshihiro, the pastor and kindergarten principal, who said, “We want to pass down the experiences of the war and the atomic bombing, and to convey the preciousness of peace to the children, the bearers of our future,” for details on the booklet and what to pass to the children.