The leader of the crew on the Japanese canoe passed on to Captain Kalepa of Hokule'a a "lantern whose flame was lit from a fire that started in the Hiroshima bombing and has been kept alive since in honor of the souls lost in the bombing" (Ferrar). The flame was being passed on from island to island, and "One of the older men asked that we take part of this flame, and find an appropriate place to extinguish it, as a symbolic moment for world peace." (See 5/20 report by Cherie Shehata.) Photo from weblog at http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~jf-iwai/