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Hiroshima Peace Flame to Be Installed at Pearl Harbor Memorial
(MENAFN) A symbolic flame that has burned since the aftermath of the 1945 US atomic bombing of Hiroshima is set to be installed at a memorial site in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during a ceremony next month, according to reports.
The initiative involves splitting the so-called “flame of peace” and transporting part of it to a location linked to the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. The idea was reportedly proposed by relatives of Sadako Sasaki, a child victim of the Hiroshima bombing, in an effort to promote long-term peace between Japan and the United States.
Sadako Sasaki died at the age of 12 from radiation-induced leukemia roughly a decade after surviving the bombing of Hiroshima.
The flame will reportedly be transported to the United States in a special container aboard a Japan Airlines flight. The ceremony is scheduled for May 24 and is expected to include descendants of former US President Harry Truman, who authorised the atomic bombings, as well as relatives connected to wartime Japanese leadership, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
The “flame of peace” is currently kept in Yame City in Japan’s Fukuoka Prefecture. It is believed to have originally been taken from the ruins of Hiroshima by Tatsuo Yamamoto, who kept it burning at his home for years before it was later relocated in 1968 to a peace tower in the city.
Yamamoto died in 2004 at the age of 88.
In 2021, Sadako Sasaki’s nephew, Yuji Sasaki, reportedly became aware of the flame and helped advance the plan to bring it to Pearl Harbor as a symbolic gesture of reconciliation, according to reports.
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