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To celebrate the Tanabata festival with UNI and telecom unions around the world, Japanese union NWJ brought a 180 cm bamboo tree to the the UNI Telecom World Committee in Nyon in May.



The Tanbata festival is celebrated in Japan on July 7; people write wishes on small pieces of paper and attach them to a bamboo tree. This year, NWJ is encouraging people to write wishes for peace.



In 2010, UNI will hold its World Congress in Nagasaki, Japan. UNI chose Nagasaki to demonstrate support for the peace initiatives running throughout Japan following the atomic bomb attacks of 1945 in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.



The peace tree is part of an education process that encourages Japanese children to become advocates for peace. Children of NWJ members wrote peace messages and attached them to the tree before its journey to Nyon, where UNI Telecom affiliates added their own messages.