Katsuzo Ishimaru is a curator at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art and an internationally renowned artist. A survivor of the 1945 atomic bomb, he followed Francis's journey to Japan. For him, “Politicians must listen to his message of peace”.
Tomorrow Pope Francis will be in Nagasaki visiting the Japanese Martyrs Museum. For the director, Fr. Domenico Vitali, who has spent 55 years in Japan, the Museum is an important element in the history of the country: "The martyrs brought another vision of the world". In secular society, everyone is very busy: there is no time to educate children.
Nabeshima Tomohisa, 52, kannushi (chief priest) of the shrine of Yutoku Inari in Kashima (Saga prefecture, Kyushu island, speaks of his hopes linked to the visit of Pope Francis to Japan (November 23-26). "Although of different religions, we have the same heart and the same desires to express: above all the gift of peace for the world". "Christianity is a religion of foreigners but Christ and Mary are like our uncles and aunts who live next to us".
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