The Peace Boat is a Japanese cruise ship that travels the world to promote global friendship and nuclear disarmament is currently visiting Fremantle. It carries messages of peace, friendship, and remembrance of the implications of nuclear weapons and nuclear power
Peace Boat left Yokohama on 8 January on its 96th voyage, and will be stopping at 15 ports in the Oceania region before returning to Kobe on 5 March. The ship will be arriving in Fremantle from Bali on 24 January at 2pm and departing for Adelaide on 25 January at 5pm.
Among the 1000 passengers on board will be Hiroshima ‘Hibakusha’ Miyake Nobuo and Fukushima farmer Hasegawa Kenyichi, and many others from Japan, including survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as farmers from Fukushima.
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