Overview
- The city started the inscription at Hiroshima City Hall on Thursday, with two long‑time survivors, Nakamoto Nobuko (83) and Okawa Junko (84), writing names by brush.
- Hiroshima reported that 3,035 additional A‑bomb‑related deaths were newly confirmed as of June 4 and will be added to the register.
- For the first time the city publicly recruited inscription volunteers and selected 14 residents aged from their teens to their 70s after brush tests and interviews, and those volunteers will join the work from June 7.
- The inscription period runs through August 5, and the completed register volumes will be placed in the stone chamber under the A‑bomb Cenotaph at the Peace Memorial Park during the August 6 ceremony.
- The practice began in 1952 and survivors have led the handwriting since 1969, but the rising age of survivors—whose average age exceeded 86 last year—has prompted the city to plan succession to keep the ritual and record keeping intact.