Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Rebecca and her sons, Asher and Judah, decorating shades for paper lanterns to be used in the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Ayoko and Nobu Hanaoka decorating shades for paper lanterns to be used in the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

A chain of origami cranes made by participants as wishes for peace at the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Shinano Angevine holding a chain of origami cranes made by participants as wishes for peace at the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Shinano Angevine holding a chain of origami cranes made by participants as wishes for peace at the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Steve Friedman, event co-coordinator and host, wearing his Japanese happi coat at the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Sansor Sor decorating paper lantern shades to be used at the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Anika Aullah decorating shades for paper lanterns to be used in the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015.The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Kevin Mahoney and Hangyu Shi, friends from U.C. Berkeley, display a lantern shade in which they designed two sides of the lantern in English and the other two sides in Chinese at the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. Kevin Mahoney and Hangyu Shi, friends from U.C. Berkeley, display a lantern shade in which they designed two sides of the lantern in English and the other two sides in Chinese at the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Kevin Mahoney and Hangyu Shi, friends from U.C. Berkeley, display a lantern shade in which they designed two sides of the lantern in English and the other two sides in Chinese at the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Miko Michaels and Rafael Martin decorating shades for paper lanterns to be used in the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

An origami crane as a wish for peace placed among the reeds at the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015. The event, sponsored by the city of Berkeley and numerous Bay Area peace groups, is held to remember the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

In remembrance of the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later, the city of Berkeley and Bay Area Peace groups held a Toro nagashi, a Japanese ceremony in which participants float paper lanterns (chōchin) down a river, the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

In remembrance of the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later, the city of Berkeley and Bay Area Peace groups held a Toro nagashi, a Japanese ceremony in which participants float paper lanterns (chōchin) down a river, the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

In remembrance of the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later, the city of Berkeley and Bay Area Peace groups held a Toro nagashi, a Japanese ceremony in which participants float paper lanterns (chōchin) down a river, the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Hiep and Faria, friends from U.C. Berkeley school of Optometry, attend the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

In remembrance of the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later, the city of Berkeley and Bay Area Peace groups held a Toro nagashi, a Japanese ceremony in which participants float paper lanterns (chōchin) down a river, the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

In remembrance of the 140,000 people who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945 and the 70,000 dead from a second World War II bomb drop at Nagasaki three days later, the city of Berkeley and Bay Area Peace groups held a Toro nagashi, a Japanese ceremony in which participants float paper lanterns (chōchin) down a river, the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Aquatic Park, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015.

Peace Lanterns Berkeley 2015

Graffiti art portrait of peace activist, John Lennon, along the railroad tracks in Berkeley, California a few blocks from where the city of Berkeley and Bay Area Peace groups held a Toro nagashi, a Japanese ceremony in which participants float paper lanterns (chōchin) down a river, the Bay Area Japanese Lantern Ceremony for World Peace, Berkeley, California, August 8, 2015.