Country/Region: Hiroshima, Japan
Goal: To understand the implications and destructive capacity of nuclear energy within the context of peace-building
Status: Completed

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony
August 6, 2007

Sixty-one years ago, Hiroshima suffered the world’s first atomic bombing. To prevent repetition of such tragedy, the city has sought ever since to convey facts about the bombing to the world. Every year on August 6, the city of Hiroshima holds a Peace Memorial Ceremony to pray for the peaceful repose of the victims, for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and for lasting world peace. During the ceremony, the mayor (Tadatoshi Akiba) issued a Peace Declaration directed toward the world at large. To view a copy of his declaration please click HERE.

The Commitment to Peace:

Everybody is capable of feeling a desire for revenge when wronged. However, nothing will come of inflicting the hardship and sadness that we suffer onto others – doing so will only cause an endless continuation of the same suffering. The creation of peaceful world requires that each of us display kindness and strength to become the final link in the chains of hatred and sorrow that we encounter.

The Prime Minister of Japan and the Secretary General of the United Nations
addressed the world in a call for peace:

Country/Region: Tokyo, Japan
Goal: Assess the latest e-learning tools available
Status: Completed

E-Learning World 2007 Expo & Conference
August 1, 2007

E-Learning has become familiar to many people as a byword for a new way of learning. E-learning has a wide range of applications and uses a spectrum of technologies, mainly Internet or computer-based, to reach learners. The conference held at Tokyo Big Sight aims to contribute to the promotion of the concept of e-Learning and the development of a stable market.

Some of the highlighted themes were:

• E-Learning 2.0 (Community Learning, Game-Based Learning)
• New and Emerging E-Learning Technologies
• Collaboration and Virtual Classrooms
• Knowledge Management Systems and Communication Strategies

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