Pacific Northwest Interfaith Peace Walk on Sunday August 6 in Lake Forest Park

Photo by Rev. Senji Kanaeda

The annual Pacific Northwest Interfaith Peace Walk will start the day on Sunday, August 6, 2023 in Lake Forest Park for the 78th year remembrance of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. 

Rev. Senji Kanaeda of the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Temple on Bainbridge Island will conduct a short ceremony for peace at 11:30am, at the Peace Pole on the corner of Bothell Way NE (SR 522) and Ballinger Way NE (SR 104).

The ceremony at 11:30am in Lake Forest Park is called すべての核犠牲者の為の「慰霊祭」or Subete no kaku giseisha no tame no Irei-sai (memorial, or spirit-consoling, service for all nuclear victims.)

The Peace Walk on August 6th will be a distance of eight miles, with the procession beginning in Lake Forest Park and ending in Seattle at Green Lake at the annual lantern-floating event From Hiroshima to Hope. 

This day is part of a nine-day walk that began in Salem, Oregon and ends at the Trident nuclear submarine base at Bangor, Washington on August 7th.

All are invited to participate in the short ceremony in Lake Forest Park and for all or any part of the eight-mile Peace Walk to Green Lake.

For more information, please contact Rev. Senji Kanaeda or Rev. Gilberto Perez at 206-780-6739 or 206-724-7632 (cell), or Glen Milner at 206-979-8319 or gk_milner@outlook.com.