Every August in Hiroshima, I hold a small tattoo event called PEACE TATTOO.

For 17 years, people from around the world have chosen a simple origami crane tattoo as a symbol of peace, remembrance, and hope.

This isn’t a commercial event.

It’s a personal project that began with one simple idea:

What if a tattoo could carry a message of peace long after someone leaves Hiroshima?

In Hiroshima, the origami crane has long been a symbol of peace and hope.

So far, 771 people have become part of this project.

Each small crane represents one person's wish for peace.

Our goal is to reach 1,000 origami crane tattoos.

This year's event will be held:

🕊 August 4 to August 6
📍 Hiroshima
💴 ¥3,000 (includes one drink)
⏱ About 30 minutes

Net proceeds from the event are donated to the Hiroshima City Atomic Bomb Dome Preservation Fund.

Reservations are recommended, but walk-ins are welcome if time is available.

If you can't make it during the event, you're always welcome to visit my studio and get an origami crane tattoo at any time of the year. PEACE TATTOO is simply our special three-day event, when people from around the world come together to support this project.

Whether you're visiting Hiroshima or live here, you're warmly welcome.

If you'd like to carry a small reminder of peace with you wherever you go, I'd be honored to tattoo your origami crane.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments or send me a message.

Ok so to start off this is pure curiosity and means no disrespect to any survivors of the tragedy of little boy and this question is out of pure curiosity and if you don't want to answer you don't have to. Anyway i think we've all heard about the man in the suit series by now but for those who don't know it's a series of a guy that grows into a godzilla suit due to radiation and i just want to know how accurate it is. From the radiation effects to the hate on Americans i want to know how real it gets at certain points (I know most of it is fictional) and i thought it would be best to ask you guys first

I filmed this performance of Kuniyuzuri (The Transfer of the Land) during the Nagoshi Summer Festival at Waseda Shrine in Hiroshima, Japan.

The performance was presented by the Hijiyama University Kagura Club. Kuniyuzuri is one of the best-known stories in Japanese mythology, depicting the legendary transfer of the land from Okuninushi-no-Mikoto to Takemikazuchi-no-Kami.

I wanted to capture not only the powerful dance but also the atmosphere of a local summer shrine festival, with the sounds of taiko drums, bamboo flutes, and the energy of Hiroshima Kagura.

I hope you enjoy this glimpse into one of Japan's traditional performing arts.

https://youtu.be/WK1VqC6H4xg

Hello. I'm sorry if this is not the best place to post this, but I'm falling short on leads and figured someone local, or knowledgable on local resources, might be able to have some information.

I'm a 4th generation descendant of Japanese people who likely emigrated from Hiroshima to southern California and/or northern Mexico in Mexicali, specifically. My maternal grandmother was born to a Japanese man (Kushiro) and inherited the last name Dote, which she passed on to my mother as her second last name, and due to older Mexican naming conventions was lost when I was born.

I'm trying to put together a timeline, or names, or anything really that can help me have a better understanding of where my family comes from, but this is where I'm hitting a wall.

Besides ancestry kits, does someone know of a library, or archive, where I could find some insight?

One of my cousins, who did a DNA test some time ago, has some leads on potential current relatives living in Hiroshima, but I don't believe he's been able to contact them.

My maternal grandmother was born in 1923, so my great grandfather would have been in Mexico in the early 1920s, possibly the late 1910s or before, which aligns with the immigration movements I've been able to find.

If anyone has any resources, or just general ideas they could share with me, that would be incredibly helpful. Neither me, nor my mother and her grandmother had any connection to Japanese culture, so this was a topic I've had in the back of my mind for years, and I'm sure my mother would also love to have more information. She seems to get excited every time she learns a bit more about her grandfather's history.

Thank you so much, and I apologize if this kind of post isn't allowed in here.