The primary endeavor of this group this semester is preparing and presenting an exhibit of posters in cooperation with the Hiroshima Peace Museum in Japan.

The Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice is holding their annual vigil for peace on Hiroshima Day Thrusday, August 6th beginning at 6pm on the corner of 9th and Mass (in fron of US Bank). The Peace with Justice Team will display posters from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and provide information about the bombing and peace efforts today. ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

Click here to watch a video made by KUJH about the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Exhibit.

Click here to read an article on the Kansas Alumni magazine about Ms. Masuoka and her talk at KU.

Click here to read the "Hiroshima Peace Memorial Exhibit Opens" article published on March 9th, 2009 by the University Daily Kansan.

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Exhibit had the pleasure to count with the following speakers:

• Ms. Sachiko Masuoka
  • Sachiko Masuoka was born in Hiroshima in 1927. At the age of 18, she experienced the atomic bombing in Hiroshima at about 2 miles away from the hypocenter. She lost her little sister and brother to the bomb. In 1962, having married a Nisei Japanese-American (the second generation of Japanese immigrants), she came to the United States. Since then, she has been living in Chicago. She has been talking about her experience in Hiroshima only for the last couple of years, and is grateful to have the chance to share this experience with audiences around the country.
• Yuki Miyamoto, Ph.D.
  • Since earning her PhD in Ethics from the University of Chicago Divinity School, Yuki Miyamoto has held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University. A native of Hiroshima, Dr. Miyamoto's work is dedicated primarily to atomic bomb discourse, and her dissertation focused on that topic from the perspective of ethics and narrative theory. Among her publications is “Rebirth in the Pure Land or God’s Sacrificial Lambs?: Religious Interpretation of the Atomic Bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki” (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies), in which she compares a Buddhist and a Roman Catholic interpretations of the atomic bombings. She has also recently published a couple of articles on Japanese ethics and marginalization, examining the images of the fox. In December 2007 she led, for the second time, a group of DePaul students on a short-term study abroad program to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to study the historical significance and wider implications of the bombings. Upon the group’s return to Chicago, the students succeeded in persuading Mayor Daley in Chicago to join the Mayors for Peace, an NGO that aims at the abolition of nuclear weaponry with its 2,410 mayors around the world.

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