Hope 80

Yesterday’s Enemy Is Today’s Friend!

From Hiroshima to the United Nations

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. However, wars are still happening in many different parts of the world. Isn't now the time to take action to unify human beings?

The descendants of global leaders during World War II will gather together and carry in their hands the Flame of Hope. They will tour the world as ambassadors of peace traveling from Hiroshima to Nagasaki to London and then to the United Nations in New York.

"Yesterday's enemy is today's friend.”

- ancient Samurai quote

What Is The Flame of Hope?

The Flame of Hope is a physical flame and a living symbol to transform past suffering into peace among all people. The goal of our work is to promote altruism, healing, and understanding throughout the world. We advocate for unity among people of all religions, nationalities, ideologies, and beliefs. We invite all people to contribute their wishes and dreams to end global war, conflict, and poverty.

More than 400,000 people, including Pope Francis and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, have added their wishes and prayers. The Flame has been unified with 15 of the most historic and sacred flames in the world, including the embers of the atomic bomb, the Holy Flame of Bethlehem, the eternal Peace Flame of Buddha (Lumbini, Nepal), and the eternal flames of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.

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The Journey

On August 6th, the historic journey will go from Hiroshima, the symbolic city of peace, to Nagasaki, to appeal for peace and an end to all nuclear weapons as well as weapons of all kinds.

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During their travels in Europe, Japan and the U.S. the descendants will meet political and religious leaders, United Nations officials, as well as artists, actors, musicians, and other peace organizations.

Harry Truman

American president
during World War II

Clifton Truman Daniel

(grandson of former US President Harry Truman)

Anti-nuclear peace activist. In 2012, after attending the Peace Memorial Ceremonies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Mr. Truman Daniel said he wishes to spread the thoughts of the hibakusha in Hiroshima. He is a former feature writer and editor of the New York Times Morning Star and Sunday Star News. He currently serves as President Emeritus of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, a non-profit partner. He is the author of Growing Up with My Grandfather Harry S. Truman.

Hideki Tojo

Prime Minister of Japan during World War II

Hidetoshi Tojo

Great-grandson of Hideki Tojo, a former Prime Minister of Japan.

Hidetoshi Tojo is a critic and businessman. Researcher on shrines and Shintoism.
When he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, his mother took him to see a movie about the Tokyo Trials, and he became keenly aware that he is a descendant of Hideki Tojo. In elementary school, he had a traumatic experience when a teacher on the verge of retirement, who knew Hideki Tojo, ridiculed him for his surname. Currently, he is the president of the General Incorporated Association for the Promotion of International Culture. He is the author of several books, including Shrine Tourism.

Ammon Göth

Nazi concentration camp commander and war criminal.

Jennifer Teege

Granddaughter of SS Nazi concentration camp commander and war criminal Amon Göth

Born to German and Nigerian parents, Ms. Teege was placed in an orphanage at four weeks old, grew up with her adoptive parents from the age of seven, and later graduated from Tel Aviv University in Israel. One day, she found a photo of her birth mother in the library and began researching, and traveling back and forth between Israel and Poland. She eventually unraveled the secret of her origins and was shocked. After facing an unbearable amount of pain, she wrote two books, including My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past, which became an international bestseller.

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II

Duncan Sandys

(great grandson of Prime Minister Winston Churchill)

CEO of P20, an international payments industry association. He has extensive experience in the private sector, government and politics. His career began at Barclays Private Bank and at age 24, he was elected to Westminster City Council in central London where he served for over a decade in a variety of leadership positions and was the youngest Lord Mayor of Westminster. He grew up in the UK and now resides in Atlanta, USA.

People that have endorsed and added prayers into the Flame of Hope

His Holiness

President Exile Government Tibet

Mayor of Nagasaki

Former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, USA

Candidate for U.S. president

First generation Nagasaki A-bomb survivor

Japanese Actress

Chairman of Rissho Kosei-kai

Grandnephew of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose

Symbolic action as opening up a new page of history

In the United States, the descendants will travel to United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Their goal will be to inaugurate the Flame of Hope next to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the great-grandfather of one of the participants, Tushar Gandhi.

Descendants whose ancestors were once enemies will travel together and become today's friends, hoping to act as living symbols, like the Flame of Hope, to create a new and brighter page of human history.