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“Hiroshima Appeals” Posters 1983-2024

2025.1.15(Wed) — 2.9(Sun)

The Hiroshima Appeals Posters project was launched in 1983 as a new campaign aspiring for peace and conveying the spirit of Hiroshima to people all over the world through graphic design. The first poster, Burning Butterflies, by Kamekura Yusaku, then-president of the Japan Graphic Design Association (JAGDA), was highly acclaimed. In following years, one JAGDA member volunteered to design a poster every year however, the project was suspended for a number of years before being resumed in 2005, the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Today, the project is sponsored by the Hiroshima chapter of JAGDA, the Hiroshima International Cultural Foundation, and the Hiroshima Peace Creation Fund, and continues to convey the heartfelt desire for peace internationally through activities such as donating works to member cities of Mayors for Peace, displaying posters in the press center at the G7 Hiroshima Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in 2016, and gifting works to Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, when he visited Hiroshima in 2019.
In 2025, in addition to presenting all 28 of the Hiroshima Appeals posters dating to the beginning of the project, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing by striving to impart the need for each and every person to continue thinking about peace amid the increasingly tense global situation, and the importance of achieving a world without nuclear weapons.

Designers

1983 Kamekura Yusaku , 1984 Awazu Kiyoshi , 1985 Fukuda Shigeo, 1986 Hayakawa Yoshio, 1987 Nagai Kazumasa, 1988 Tanaka Ikko, 1989 Katsui Mitsuo, 1990 Ishioka Eiko , 2005 Nakajo Masayoshi, 2006 Sato Koichi, 2007 Matsunaga Shin, 2008 Aoba Masuteru, 2009 Asaba Katsumi, 2010 Nagatomo Keisuke, 2011 Endo Susumu, 2012 Okumura Yukimasa, 2013 Kasai Kaoru, 2014 Inoue Tsuguya , 2015 Satoh Taku, 2016 Kamijyo Takahisa, 2017 Hara Kenya, 2018 Hattori Kazunari , 2019 Shibuya Katsuhiko, 2020 Watanabe Yoshie, 2021 Onuki Takuya, 2022 Sato Kashiwa, 2023 Nakamura Norio, 2024 Soeda Takayuki

Kamekura Yusaku, Burning Butterflies, 1983

Ishioka Eiko, The Silent Message of X
*Authorized by Walt Disney Company, the original copyright owner of the Character

Hattori Kazunari, Question Mark, 2018, 2018

Soeda Takayuki, The Powerful Message of Left-behind Objects, 2024 *Photograph: Ishiuchi Miyako『ひろしま』hiroshima #71　Donor: Hatamura, T.

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Exhibition Period
2025.1.15(Wed) — 2.9(Sun)
Opening Hours
10:00–17:00

*Admission until 30 minutes before closing

Venue
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery B-1
Closed
Mondays
Admission
Free
In cooperation with
JAGDA, JAGDA Hiroshima

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