The 26th ASEACCU Annual Conference which was held in Hiroshima, Japan last August 23-26, 2018 was indeed very successful and this was largely due to the able leadership of Dr. Yuji Kawano, President of the Elizabeth University of Music in Hiroshima. Our sincerest thanks also go to the faculty, students, and staff of the same University for their warm and generous hospitality and for Prof. Yoshiaki Terumichi, President of Sophia University and the other Japanese Catholic Colleges and Universities for supporting this annual conference. The theme of the conference Catholic Education and Peace Initiatives was very timely and the venue very appropriate since it was also about the same time in 1945 during the Second World War that an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. What remains of the terrible attack was a bomb-dome which is a skeletal ruin of the former Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall. UNESCO declared it as a world heritage site for it has become an icon of a robust and most destructive force ever created by humankind, but at the same time, the structure gives humanity hope to achieve world peace and the ultimate elimination of weapons that endangers humanity.
