I am a graphic designer, an artist, and an author of picture books, and as a peace 
conductor, I engage in global activities toward establishing true peace and the world without 
nuclear weapons or wars by means of design and art.

Artists are creators, but never even think of creating arms or nuclear weapons, or causing a war. 
It’s scientists who created arms and nuclear weapons, not we artists.

We all have an innocent childhood, when we dreamed of becoming heroes who fight for 
peace and justice against evil powers trying to conquer earth, as we fancied ourselves as those 
in TV and movies. Our future was full of hope and dream, but as we have grown up, 
we have changed and lost our childhood innocence.

Those who created nuclear weapons would have never imagined themselves to become creators 
of weapons of mass destruction which may ruin whole mankind in a flash.

Then, at what point of time have we lost our childhood innocence and love for peace?
When have we begun to change? Is it impossible to preserve innocent mind of childhood when 
we have grown up? Isn’t it possible ever to resume our pure and peace - loving mind of 
childhood once lost and gone in the process of growing up?

Even if we could realize a world without nuclear weapons or wars, it would be only 
a temporary one, if we could not find a way to avoid the change of the mind from children to 
grown-ups and to preserve pure, innocent and peace-loving mind of childhood in 
all mankind. Because true peace is never to be realized without drastic change of human mind 
which falls easily into temptation to bring out wars and create nuclear weapons. 

I wrote “A Picture Book without Pictures - If this planet is covered by pictures” as a tool 
to help realize true peace and the world without nuclear weapons or wars. By drawing pictures, 
children can preserve their innocent and peace-loving mind and grow-ups can resume such 
mind as we all had in our childhood.

I firmly believe that my “A Picture Book without Pictures” can be a material for peace
education and the “A Picture Book without Pictures Project” can be a definite means of creating
and retaining true peace and the world without nuclear weapons or wars.


Hiromi Inayoshi

Peace conductor
Leader of the “A Picture Book without Pictures Project”

Grapgic Designer and Artist