Members of the O-Taiko drummer group Balazs Kiglics and Grace Cope perform at a Nagasaki Day peace vigil beside the Peace Pole in the Otago Museum Reserve, Dunedin, yesterday, watched by children from Poolburn School on a day trip to the city.
Ria Shibata, a research fellow at the University of Otago's National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, co-ordinated the 1pm vigil.
Dr Shibata, who was born in Japan, said Hiroshima Day had previously been commemorated at the museum reserve pole, to mark the dropping of an atomic bomb on a civilian target, in Hiroshima 72 years ago, on August 6, 1945.
Holding the vigil on August 9 this year marked the later atomic bombing of another Japanese city, Nagasaki.
The group performs traditional Japanese taiko drumming and is based in the university music department.
