Posted by Church of the Brethren on May 1, 2012
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The World Friendship Center sponsored a “One World, Peace Concert” in Hiroshima, featuring American peace folk singer, Mike Stern, Asaka Watanabe, WFC Peace Choir director, and Japanese musicians sharing songs of peace. The concert was held in the Memorial Cathedral for Peace on April 13, 2012 to an audience of over 400 people.
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Posted by Larry & JoAnn Sims on March 29, 2012
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On March 11, 2012 people of Hiroshima including several people from World Friendship Center gathered first at Peace Memorial Museum to hear a series of experts share their views on the nuclear disaster then second, moving to a gathering at the A-bomb dome.
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Posted by JoAnn Sims on January 24, 2012
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Japan
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It truly was a dark and stormy Friday night at the end of January last year (2011). Larry was doing his usual crossword puzzles on the floor and I shouted from the library to come and read an email we just received. It was from a couple who are members of the American Committee for the World Friendship Center. They have the responsibility to find directors for the World Friendship Center, a Japanese organization that is dedicated to fostering friendships between nations to promote world peace and nuclear weapon disarmament located in Hiroshima, Japan. Would we be interested?
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Posted by JoAnn Sims on January 7, 2012
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Peace
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Japan
The Okinawa Peace Prize is aimed at recognizing efforts of individuals and organizations contributing to the promotion of peace in the Asia-Pacific region geographically and historically related to Okinawa. As volunteer directors of the World Friendship Center we nominated Hiromu Morishita for the Okinawa Peace Prize. His story begins in 1945 when he survived the A-bomb in Hiroshima.
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