The temporary exhibition Hiroshima Appeals. Messages of Peace curated by Miki Shimokawa opens at the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art.

On display are the posters designed by the Japan Graphic Design Association (JAGDA) which, since 1983, annually presents, through a project entrusted to a prominent Japanese designer, a poster denouncing the use of nuclear weapons and, in general, war. The 29 posters on display vary in style and graphic design but are united by a single clear message: an appeal for peace both to commemorate the bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to promote a lasting idea of peace and harmony. The exhibition also includes documentary posters from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Exhibition curated by Dr. Miki Shimokawa.

Hiroshima Appeals is a poster campaign inspired by the spirit of Hiroshima, designed to convey the prayers and wishes of a city marked by the devastation caused by the first use of the atomic bomb on humanity.

Since 1983, starting with the famous poster Burning Butterflies by Yusaku Kamekura, the Japan Graphic Design Association (JAGDA) has annually produced a poster denouncing the use of nuclear weapons, and war in general, created by one of its designers. The campaign, which had stopped in 1990, was resumed in 2005 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.

The posters are donated each year to the mayor of Hiroshima and have also been delivered to cities participating in the Mayors for Peace network in 2005 and 2008. Some works have also been exhibited at the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in Hiroshima in 2016 at the Press Centre. In this way, the campaign has helped spread a message of peace within and beyond Japan's borders.

The posters are sold to the public every year and exhibited in a worldwide tour called Peace Poster Exhibition. Presented at the Atomic Bomb Exhibition preceding the historic Geneva Summit in 1985, and at the exhibition Hiroshima: A Message for Peace among People held in Spain and Italy in 1997, the illustrations have attracted the attention of citizens from around the world.