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Telling My Grandfather’s Story from Hiroshima Through Film

An American Hibakusha (TIME, 2020) For the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, my film partner Sazzy Gourley and I directed ...

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Hiroshima 75 Years Later: An Interview With Survivor Setsuko Thurlow

At 13 years old, Setsuko Thurlow, the youngest of seven children, organized her school paper and liked to read books recommended by her older brother ...

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From Hiroshima to Hope looks for new leadership

Since 1984, a group of concerned citizens, peace activists, and members of the Japanese American community have gathered together on August 6 to mark the ...

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Excerpt from Hiroshima Nagasaki Beyond The Ocean - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> 4. Survivor's Destinations—South America Paraguay A country of striking red soil, Paraguay has rich, expansive fields that seem to reach ...

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Excerpt from Hiroshima Nagasaki Beyond The Ocean - Part 1

1. Atomic Bomb Survivors in the Americas What comes to mind when you see or hear the phrase “survivors of the bomb in North and ...

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Hiroshima through Nisei Eyes

What do we know about Hiroshima? And when and how do we learn it? For me, the answer came from my great aunt, Mary Hamaji ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #8/6 and 8/9, 1945: “21 and 15 Kilotons...”

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Only in Japan.” Check back every weekend for subsequent ...

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A Mother's Love, My Inspiration

Someday, the voices of the hibakusha will no longer be with us to bear witness. But the memory of the morning of August 6, 1945 ...

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Peace Activist Passes Away at 90 – Remembering the Energetic Kaz Suyeishi

Call Me Grandma Kaz Suyeishi would start off her talks on peace by calling out to her audience, “Please call me grandma.” Often in conversations ...

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Fernando Hiramuro and Yasuaki Yamashita: Japanese Mexican survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings – Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Yasuaki Yamashita was born in 1939 in Nagasaki. Until the second atomic bomb exploded in the city where he was born on ...