Overview

• Approximately 55,000 people, including hibakusha, bereaved families and Prime Minister Fumio Ishiba, attended the August 6 ceremony at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
• Ambassadors from 120 countries and regions joined for the first time with Taiwan and Palestine represented while China and Russia were absent.
• As of the end of March, the number of A-bomb survivors holding health handbooks fell to 99,130, with an average age of 86.13 years.
• About 5,000 colorful lanterns were floated on the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome to honor the victims in an evening ritual.
• Ninety-year-old hibakusha Nobuko Suzuki attended her first Peace Memorial Ceremony and recounted the severe burns she suffered at age 10.