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Japanese
Ambassador to Jordan, Mr. Koichi Obata, witnessed the successful
opening of the event “
Hiroshima
… Tale of a City” which took place at the
University of Jordan on 21 December under the Royal patronage of H.R.H.
Princess Raya bint Al-Hussein who deputized H.R.H. Princess Aisha bint
Al-Hussein.
The event, which was organized by the Center
for Security Studies in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, was
attended by a number of Jordanian students and intellectuals. The
opening was followed by the screening of a documentary
"
Hiroshima
, a Mother’s Prayer" which demonstrated the
suffering of
Hiroshima
and its citizens. Also, an exhibition featuring
photos illustrating the humanitarian catastrophe, which took place in
the Japanese cities of
Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
during the World War II in 1945, when the US Army
bombed the cities with an atomic bomb, was opened too.
Moreover
and as part of the event's weeklong activities, Deputy Mayor of Amman,
Engineer Abdel Rahim Biqae and Mr. Obata inaugurated the documentary
exhibition at the Zaha Cultural Center on 22 December. Mr. Biqae and
Mr. Obata opened a mural show "A Letter from Amman Children to
Hiroshima
",
which illustrated paintings drawn by Jordanian school children who
expressed their agony over the catastrophe that occurred in the two
Japanese cities.
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