On the fifty-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori attended the annual Hiroshima Memorial Service for the Dead and Peace Memorial Ceremony, held in Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima. The assembly of about 50,000 people, including A-bomb survivors, members of families of people who had died as a result of the bomb, ordinary citizens, and foreign diplomats, prayed for the repose of the dead. After the ceremony the Prime Minister visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. He also listened to the requests of A-bomb survivors and visited Kurakake Nozomien, a nursing home in Asakita-ku, Hiroshima, housing some 300 A-bomb survivors.