For about a year, we have been following the life and achievements of Shinichi Kato, who was active in both Japan and the U.S. Born in Hiroshima in 1900 and dying in his hometown in 1982, Kato was a man of action who lived through the 20th century to the …
Write a letter to the UN Secretary-General Shinichi Kato, who traveled around the world calling for a "World Federation" and "Global Citizenship," attended the first Global Citizenship World Assembly held in San Francisco in July 1975. In January of the following year, he sent a letter to then UN Secretary-General …
It is often said that people visit Zenkoji Temple by being pulled by a cow, but this time I was able to visit the world's hidden gem, "Nepal." This was also thanks to a "global citizen" rather than a "cow." I have never had any interest in conventions that tend …
From what I have gathered in Japan, the only people who have met Kato, who was born in 1900, are his nephew, Mr. Yoshida, and two others who live near his parents' home, and in the United States there is only one other person, the Hiroshima Prefectural Association in Los …
Kato Shinichi, a journalist of action, left behind few written works. I searched for "Kato Shinichi" in the "Peace Database" of the "Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum" in my hometown of Hiroshima to see if there were any writings left by him. I found some of Kato's writings among his books …
I want to spend my final days in Japan During his second stay in America, Kato Shinichi compiled "A Centennial History of Japanese Americans in the United States" in 1961 as editor-in-chief of the New Japan America Newspaper Company, before leaving the company and returning to Japan in 1970. Looking …
Kato Shinichi, who served as Secretary General of the World Federalist Asian Conference held in Hiroshima in November 1952 and as Secretary General of the Hiroshima Prefectural Headquarters of the United Nations Association of Japan, gave up his position in the peace movement in Japan and returned to the United …
At the request of the governor, he also became the prefectural public relations committee chairman. After the outbreak of war between Japan and the United States, Kato Shinichi returned to his hometown of Hiroshima on a Japanese-American exchange ship and became a reporter for the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper, where he …
In my previous article, I mentioned that in April 1946, almost eight months after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Kato Shinichi appears in footage of Hiroshima city taken by the U.S. military. The filming was reported in the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper at the time. The April 16th issue …
About a month after the atomic bombing, Kato Shinichi acted as an interpreter and guide for Dr. Marcel Junod, the chief representative of the Red Cross in Japan, who visited Hiroshima. On November 1, he was appointed chief of the political department, and in February of the following year, 1946, …
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