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Winnipeg, August 9, 2023: Hinode Taiko performs at Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace. Photo: Paul S. Graham

Winnipeg, August 9, 2023 — Winnipeggers held a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These ceremonies are conducted each year to help keep alive the memory of these attacks…

The Story of Sadako

by Junko Bailey Origami, the art of folding paper to make decorative items, is a common indoor entertainment in Japan, and most people learn how to fold an origami crane in their youth. As the crane is a symbol of…

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2022

Winnipeggers gathered at the Manitoba Legislative Building on August 6, 2022, to commemorate the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This year, Lanterns for Peace was sponsored by Peace Alliance Winnipeg, the Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba, the Council…

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2022

Winnipeg, Aug. 2015: Lanterns in the fountain at Memorial Park. Photo by Paul S. Graham, as rendered by Ken Harasym.

77 years ago, the world was introduced to the horrors of nuclear war. The death, destruction and suffering that resulted from the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on Aug 6 and 9, 1945 meant that the world had changed…

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2021

On Friday, August 6th, Winnipeggers joined in a Lanterns for Peace Ceremony to mark the 76th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These ceremonies are held each year to help keep alive the memory of these attacks…

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2021

76 years ago, the world was introduced to the horrors of nuclear war. The death, destruction and suffering that resulted from the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on Aug 6 and 9, 1945 meant that the world had changed…

Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2020

  Please join us for the annual Lanterns for Peace Ceremony, held each year to commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945. Our aim is to help keep the memory of these attacks…