YEREVAN, AUGUST 6, ARMENPRESS. A ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945 was held in Armenia today.

Lanterns of Peace made by Armenian children will be sent to Japan, where Japanese children will put them into the water, a symbolic way to remind the world of the victims of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Armenian-Japanese Hikari Center Chair Karine Piliposyan said at the ceremony in Yerevan at the Peace Covenant Memorial.

Hikari Center students recited hokkus in Armenian and Japanese dedicated to the memory of the victims of the bombings.

The Deputy Head of Mission of Japan in Armenia, Japanese tourists and others were in attendance.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan