From left: Deputy Counsel General Kazuhiro Uryo, Japan; SFRPD General Manager Phil Ginsburg; President and Founder of URI, The Right Rev. William E. Swing; San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed; former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz; Dame Charlotte Malliard Shultz. (Photo courtesy of San Francisco Recreation and Park Department)

Two saplings, descendants of ginkgo biloba trees that survived the 1945 atomic bomb blast over Hiroshima, were planted during a ceremony at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

The trees were planted as part of an event that also honored former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Dame Charlotte Malliard Shultz for their advocacy around nuclear disarmament.

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