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| December 12, 2006 |
The second "Peace and Green Boat" sets sail |
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| Peace and Green Boat sets sail from Busan |
The second "Peace and Green Boat" - Peace Boat's 57th voyage - set sail from the port of Busan, South Korea on Tuesday, December 12. Over 250 Korean people were onboard the vessel "Fujimaru", and were joined by 250 Japanese people the next day as the vessel arrived in Hakata, Japan. |
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This voyage, organized in partnership with Korean NPO Green Foundation, will sail for two weeks to ports including Hong Kong, Cai Lan in Viet Nam and Subic in the Philippines with the purpose of exploring people-to-people Japan-Korea relations and the inter-connected nature of environmental problems, in order to build a civil society "East Asian Bio-community" build upon peace and environmental sustainability.
During the one-day call in Hakata, on the southern island of Kyushu, Japanese and Korean participants joined together to take part in study and exchange programs on issues of ecology and historical recognition. One group met with local environmental NGOs who are fighting to save the area's tidal mud flats, home to many species of birds, from land reclamation and development projects.
A second group, in an extremely emotional day, traced the history and the brutal experiences of the Korean people who were brought to Hakata as forced labourers during the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea. It was the first time for many of the Japanese participants to learn in-depth about the suffering of the Korean forced labourers in Japan. The day's experience will be debated onboard in joint workshops.
This voyage is the second "Peace and Green Boat", following the successful launch of the project in Summer 2005, during which a voyage for peace and reconciliation set sail to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War Two. "Peace and Green Boat" is the largest scale Japan-South Korea exchange project to date, and will continue to be active over the coming 10 years. |
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