Japanese group planning to hold A-bomb piano concert at U.N.

Thursday 04th February, 03:42 AM JST

SENDAI —

A piano that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 was entrusted Wednesday to a Japanese group planning to hold a concert at the U.N. headquarters in New York on International Day of Peace this fall. The group from Kobe rented the piano from Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor Yoko Matsuba, 84, now living in Sendai, to stage the concert on Sept 21 to promote peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons.

To cover transportation and other costs for the concert totaling around 20 million yen, the organizers said they will hold fundraising concerts in about 40 places across Japan, including Shiga, Kyoto, Nara and Shizuoka prefectures. The project was launched by Makoto Kajita, 50, with the support of the Hiroshima city government.

Artists supporting the idea will perform musical pieces on the theme of peace at the U.N. headquarters, he said.

‘‘We hope to convey how precious peace is through the beautiful sound of the ‘atomic bomb piano’ which survived that horrible experience,’’ said Kajita.

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14 Comments

Triple888 at 07:54 AM JST - 4th February

Doesn't sound right "A-bomb piano concert"...
Katsuro1000 at 08:02 AM JST - 4th February

Lol you're right.
NationalistRE at 08:13 AM JST - 4th February

These people are fools to put their hopes on an organisation that was proved to be just as useless as the League of Nations during Iraq.
tokorobam at 08:20 AM JST - 4th February

Triple888: Doesn't sound right "A-bomb piano concert"...

NationalistRE: These people are fools to put their hopes on an organisation that was proved to be just as useless as the League of Nations during Iraq.

Pretty harsh commentary folks. I think this is a noble idea.
some14some at 08:20 AM JST - 4th February

A-bomb piano concert...next guitar...sitar....makes no sense.
ca1ic0cat at 09:30 AM JST - 4th February

I wonder if any of the parts have any radiation left over from the blast?
wawawasuremono at 11:13 AM JST - 4th February

it will take at least 1000 nukes for them to learn the lesson that only took Japan 2 nukes to learn.

Nah, they will still be oblivious to their culpability and blame some Arabs
Disillusioned at 11:38 AM JST - 4th February

The headline is definitely missing something. Is the piano made from an A-Bomb?
neverknow2 at 12:05 PM JST - 4th February

Pretty harsh commentary folks. I think this is a noble idea.

The war is over. It was all very sad etc, etc. How about moving on?
tokorobam at 01:09 PM JST - 4th February

ca1ic0cat: I wonder if any of the parts have any radiation left over from the blast?

In case you are serious with that question, no it would not have anything left over and very unlikely it every did.
goddog at 02:28 PM JST - 4th February

‘atomic bomb piano’ This sounds like the name of a punk band from the early 70`s out of NY City. Good luck with the concerts.
NeoJamal at 11:12 PM JST - 4th February

Japan is at least 55 years ahead of rest of the world in terms of "Baptism by Fire."

Thee rest of the world will experience this only in WW-III, whereas Japan already experienced it in WWII.

As long as the world accepts the atrocities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as 'means to an end' for a swift capitulation of their foes instead of condemning it, a nuclear WWIII is guaranteed.