Hiroshima tradition continues in Coventry
Hiroshima Day on 6 August will be marked by Friends throughout Britain
Quakers throughout Britain will be supporting a wide range of events on Hiroshima Day, 6 August.
In Coventry Friends will once again remember the impact of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. This year’s commemorative service at Coventry Cathedral is the twenty-eighth, and is for people of all faiths and none, the organisers said. It will be led by Canon Kathryn Fleming of Coventry Cathedral. The lord mayor of Coventry will attend, as will Katsumi and Kyoko Takahashi, envoys of the mayor of Hiroshima.
They will be joined by Bruce Kent, honorary vice-president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Bruce said: ‘I come to Coventry, in part to remember the awful events of 6 and 9 August 1945, which cost the lives of so many tens of thousands of men, women and children, but I come also to support and pray for all those, here and in so many countries, who are working to make sure that such calamities, whether by accident or design, never happen again.’
The service will include a dance interpretation of Coventry Cathedral’s Statue of Reconciliation and an exchange of messages between the lord mayor of Coventry and the mayor of Hiroshima.
Music will be provided by a community group and participants will make Japanese origami cranes of peace.
