REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA
EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA IN JAPAN
INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATION AND PRESS SERVICES
PRESS RELEASE
Tokyo, August 6, 2026 – The Ambassador of the Republic of Angola to Japan, Teodolinda Rosa Rodrigues Coelho, attended the ceremony in Hiroshima early Thursday morning (August 6, 2026), Angola time, marking the 81st anniversary of the atomic bombing.
With a record number of representatives from 121 countries, the event took place at the Peace Memorial Park, built in honor of the victims, and was presided over by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who called for “a world free of nuclear weapons.”
Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui delivered a statement for peace and called on world leaders to immediately abolish nuclear weapons, recalling the catastrophic damage they inflict on humanity.
Hiroshima observed a moment of silence at 8:15 a.m., the exact minute the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. At that time, the heat and radiation from the explosion destroyed the city; approximately 140,000 people died by the end of that year, and many survivors suffer from cancer and other illnesses related to radiation exposure.
Visitors from around the world joined the people of Hiroshima, representing all of Japan, on a pilgrimage to the Peace Memorial Park to pay tribute to the victims.
On Friday, continuing the visit’s itinerary, Angola’s ambassador to Japan, Teodolinda Coelho, will travel to Nagasaki, another Japanese city struck by an atomic bomb on August 9, 1945.
INSTITUTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS AND PRESS OFFICE OF THE EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA IN JAPAN, in Tokyo, August 6, 2026. –
