Japan’s Prime Minister Attends Hiroshima Memorial Service for the Dead and Peace Memorial Ceremony

2002-08-08

"War is the work of man.
War is destruction of human life.
War is death.
To remember the past is to
Commit oneself to the future.
To remember Hiroshima is to
abhor nuclear war,
To remember Hiroshima is to
commit oneself to peace."

Pope John Paul II

Inscribed in stone at the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall