An exhibition has opened in Tokyo featuring comments written by residents about the August 1945 US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Thirty-five written comments are on display at the community center in western Tokyo's Kunitachi City.

The city and a residents' group organize the annual event to prevent the memories of the bombings from being forgotten.

One comment mentions the mushroom cloud from the nuclear blast. It says, "The cloud on that day was not a cumulonimbus cloud. Please do not forget that day."

Another says, "Those who created the bombs were we human beings, and those who will create a peaceful world are also we humans."

Other exhibits include a picture jointly painted by high school students in Hiroshima and atomic bomb survivors. It depicts a scene immediately after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

A visitor in her 80s said she now realizes how happy she is just living an ordinary life, and that it is humans that start and stop wars. She said it is important to put feelings into words.

Kijima Kaori is a member of the event's executive committee. She said she hopes people will remember in August that atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, and that wars are still going on in the world today.

The exhibition runs through August 15.