Distribute and nurture seeds from atomic bomb survivor trees (hibaku tree)

Member Cities' Activity

Saddleworth School students plant tree for peace

Novenber 21, 2022 [UK & Ireland Chapter]
Member Cities' Activity

November 11 of Peace in Lasséran

November 11, 2022 [Lasséran, France]
Member Cities' Activity

Hiroshima tree planted in Oldham Peace Garden

October 13, 2022 [UK & Ireland Chapter]
Member Cities' Activity

Planting a ginkgo tree in Hannover

August 19, 2022 [Hannover, Germany]
Member Cities' Activity

Planting seeds of atomic-bombed Japanese hackberry and jujube from Hiroshima

April 26, 2022 [Harabja, Iraq]
Member Cities' Activity

Planting a Ginkgo tree at the Cherry Blossom Festival

April 22, 2022 [Hannover, Germany]
Member Cities' Activity

Planting a Ginkgo sapling in Tübingen

April 4, 2022 [Tübingen, Germany]
Member Cities' Activity

Seeds of Peace 6

November 12, 2021 [Oldham, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Seeds of Peace 5

November 8, 2021 [Oldham, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Seeds of Peace 4

November 4 and 12, 2021 [Oldham, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Cervia wins the “Blooming Cities” Contest: Primary School M. Buonarroti from Montaletto is awarded first place and the special prize “Scuola Fiorita” 2021

October 26, 2021 [Cervia, Italy]
Member Cities' Activity

Seeds of Peace 3

November 3, 2021 [Oldham, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Seeds of Peace 2

October 14, 2021 [Oldham, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Seeds of Peace 1

September 21, 2021 [Oldham, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Mayors for Peace Germany Ginkgo project: Planting ginkgo trees in Erfurt

[German Chapter]
Member Cities' Activity

Event in Oldham to celebrate International Day of Peace 2021

September 21, 2021 [Oldham, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Shetland Islands Council plants one of its Hiroshima peace trees on Hiroshima Day

August 6, 2021 [Shetland Islands, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

More UK Councils seek to grow Hiroshima gingko seeds for peace

[UK & Ireland Chapter]
Member Cities' Activity

Tree planting ceremonies and events in Western Australian cities

August - September 2020 [West Australian Chapter]
Member Cities' Activity

Project G

2014 - [Manchester, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Report on the peace events in 2019

August - December 2019 [Mirano, Italy]
Our History

Secretary General visited Geneva, Switzerland for meeting with representatives from the UN, government, and international organizations

November 2019
Member Cities' Activity

Second-generation A-bombed tree planting ceremonies in Belgium

November 2019 [Belgium Chapter]
Member Cities' Activity

Donation ceremony of the second-generation A-bombed Ginkgo seedling on the International Day of Peace

September 21, 2019 [La Rochelle, France]
Member Cities' Activity

Manchester Metropolitan University unveils Manchester’s eighth ginkgo tree from Hiroshima seeds

July 1, 2019 [Manchester, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Canovelles, Spain, commemorates the Peace Day planting a second-generation A-bombed tree

September 22, 2018 [Canovelles, Spain]
Member Cities' Activity

Manchester City Council seeks to create new contemplative peace garden

June 2018 [Manchester, UK]
Our History

Delegation attended the 2nd Preparatory Committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference in Geneva, Switzerland and Visited France and Spain

April 2018
Member Cities' Activity

Replanting a second-generation A-bombed Ginkgo tree during a peace event

March 4, 2018 [Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Spain]
Member Cities' Activity

Donation of a seedling of an A-bombed Ginkgo tree to Hannover YMCA

January 22, 2018 [Hannover, Germany]
Our History

President and Vice President (Mayor of Nagasaki) visited Norway to attend the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

December 2017
Our History

President visited Germany, Italy and Vatican City

November 2017
Member Cities' Activity

Activities report (October 2017)

October 2017 [Manchester, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Commemorating the International Day of Peace around a second-generation A-bombed Ginkgo tree

September 21, 2017 [Gava, Spain]
Member Cities' Activity

Planting of second generation seedlings of an A-bombed ginkgo tree

August - September 2017 [Four cities in Norway]
Member Cities' Activity

Holding of the “Hibakusha Worldwide” Exhibition” and presentation of seeds of A-bombed tree

July 31 to August 10, 2017 [Langen, Germany]
Member Cities' Activity

Promotional leaflet of ‘Project G,’ Manchester’s local educational project focused around the story of the ginkgo tree seeds provided to Manchester from Hiroshima

April 2017 [UK and Ireland Chapter]
Member Cities' Activity

Mayors for Peace in the UK welcomes visit from two ‘hibakusha’

Scheduled for March 26 - April 1, 2017 [UK and Ireland Chapter]
Member Cities' Activity

The itinerant exhibition “Hiroshima-Nagasaki: For a world free from nuclear weapons” has opened in the city of Vila-real

January 12 - February 12, 2017 [Vila-real and Granollers, Spain]
Member Cities' Activity

A second-generation of an A-bombed Ginkgo tree is growing in a school in Sant Feliu de Llobregat

November 30, 2016 [Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain]
Our History

UN Office at Geneva planted the Sapling of the Second Generation A-bombed Ginkgo Biloba

October 3, 2016
Our History

President attended the May Session of the UN Open-ended Working Group on Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations

May 2016
Member Cities' Activity

Commemorative events for the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings

August - October 2015 [Cervia, Italy]
Our History

President and Secretary General visited Belgium, Austria and UK while in Europe for the 9th Executive Conference of Mayors for Peace

November 12 - 13, 2015 [Ypres, Belgium]
Member Cities' Activity

Report on the development of ‘Project G’

2014 - 2015 [Manchester, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

“Tree for Peace” – a commemorative event

May 8, 2015 [Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany]
Member Cities' Activity

Manchester develops ‘Project Ginkgo’ and prepares for special 70th anniversary service of commemoration

Reported on February 3, 2015 [Manchester, UK]
Member Cities' Activity

Seedlings from Hiroshima in Granollers

December 1, 2014 [Granollers, Spain]
Our History

Secretary General visited Austria and Germany to attend the 3rd Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons and other meetings, and to select lead cities (in Japanese)

December 2014
Member Cities' Activity

Manchester’s Hiroshima seeds ‘Project Ginkgo’ launch

November 5, 2014 [Manchester, UK]
Our History

Secretary General visited South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia and India to attend conferences and to request some mayors to be lead cities (in Japanese)

September 2014
Our History

Secretary General visited Kazakhstan to attend the International Conference and a series of events paying tribute to the 25th anniversary of the International Anti-nuclear Movement, “Nevada-Semey” and to have discussions with member cities (in Japanese)

August 2014
Our History

Secretary General visited France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria and Italy to attend conferences and to request some mayors to be lead cities (in Japanese)

June 2014
Our History

Delegation visited Vienna, Austria to attend the 1st Preparatory Committee for the 2015 NPT Review Conference

May 2012