The annual airing of the Registers of Atomic Bomb Victims, in which the registers are exposed to fresh air to remove moisture, was held on May 18, 2022, at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims. At 11:02 a.m., the time the atomic bomb was dropped, participants observed a moment of silence. Afterwards, ten city employees carefully turned the pages of the 194 registers, which had been laid out on white cloth, one page at a time.

War Damaged Trees are trees that were damaged yet survived the air raids during World War Two. Today, in Tokyo, there are approximately 200 War Damaged Trees, and there are around 150 trees that are not certain if they are War Damaged Trees. Some trees remain uncertified because of the lack of certification systems (unlike Hiroshima and Nagasaki), or because the damage may be caused by reasons other than air raids like fire, lightning or diseases, and because people who can testify the cause of the damage are becoming fewer. War Damaged Tree exists in unexpected, ordinary places like precincts of temples, parks and parking lots. This exhibition brings the latest works from Mana Kikuta in thinking about the distance between 76 years ago and today from the wounds of the trees.