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JO1 x Tanaka Terumi, Nihon Hidankyo Dialogue onboard Peace Boat
On August 10, Peace Boat and the UN Pavilion at Expo2025 Osaka Kansai co-hosted the Reception: TIME FOR PEACE onboard the Pacific World, Peace Boat’s passenger ship. Part of the Peace, Human Security, and Dignity Theme Week at the Expo, the event served as a unique platform for dialogue and exchange among global stakeholders dedicated to promoting peace, human security and dignity (click here for a full report).
Peace Boat and the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway have partnered to create a permanent space for an outreach edition of the Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition "A Message to Humanity," which shares the work of Nihon Hidankyo, 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. This exhibition, featuring photographs of Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) taken by Magnum photographer Antoine D'Agata, is being carried to global audiences through Peace Boat’s voyages, reaching communities that might not otherwise have access to such initiatives and amplifying the voices of the Hibakusha.
The internationally acclaimed Japanese group JO1 performed at this reception. Following this, they viewed the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition "A Message to Humanity" onboard, after which they joined a dialogue session together with Tanaka Terumi, Co-Chair of Nihon Hidankyo, himself a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and fellow speaker at the event.