As Okinawa Prefecture Governor Denny Tamaki visits Nagasaki’s Atomic Bomb Museum for the first time, he comments, “Let’s connect our thoughts on peace to our future!” (27jy23)


Splendor of Okinawa: Clematis, roadside Uruma, 30jn23


5 years after taking office as governor in 2018, Governor Tamaki visited Nagasaki City. With hands clasped in prayer, the governor placed flowers at the Peace Prayer Museum and offered a moment of silence for the atomic bomb victims. He also viewed the Mother and Child Peace Statue by Okinawan sculptor Minoru Kinjo. Later he toured the Atomic Bomb Museum. With Museum Director Takuji Inoue as guide, the governor touched on the reality of radiation exposure.


Governor Tamaki started his Talk Caravan in 2019 to ask the entire Nation to consider together the issues of the base construction in Okinawa and the US-Japan Security Treaty. Nagasaki was the 10th site targeted for his visit. He noted in the visitor’s log, “Let’s connect our thoughts on peace to our future!”


Okinawa Prefecture Governor Denny Tamaki stated at the museum, “Whether the act was idiotic or not, a great many people had their lives stolen from them. Will their agony continue to be handed on to those of us who remain? With that in mind, we have keenly understood that it is our obligation to proclaim peace with our voices strong, because Okinawa, Nagasaki, and Okinawa suffered that same pain together!”


During the governor’s courtesy call at City Hall, Mayor Suzuki stated, “I would like to join with the governor in working earnestly to transmit the reality of the damages of war to our following generations.”


Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki responded. “I’d like to go forward, including  with various systematic student exchanges and such. I also want to get to work on assisting this generation in fostering a society where, even from now, future generations can work together to create a secure livelihood.”

 

Original Japanese article: Nagasaki Cultural Broadcasting, published Wednesday 19 July 2023 at 19:01

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/3ac0868e7e9d8d6dd94624c6bd32c5a778688feb


Denny in the News: news about Governor Denny Tamaki.


Denny Tamaki is the governor of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. Although Okinawa is important as an international tourist destination and a key element in strategic US Military Forces, its governor receives very little coverage in the Japanese press and almost none in the English language media. 


This blog hopes to  translate one news article a day on the governor.  It is unsponsored and unauthorized. The translator simply hopes to improve his skills and perhaps give the governor an English speaking audience. 


Any suggestion on improving the translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.


Where they occur, words and phrases in Ryukyuan (the Okinawan language) are rendered in italics and translated in parentheses. Names  whose readings are uncertain are rendered as Name (=Kanji?) as in Nagayuki (=長行?). Any corrections in such instances would be gratefully appreciated.

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