
September 6, 2019
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
100 Campbell Hall
Michiko Yamaoka uses narrative storytelling to show the harsh reality of what happened in Hiroshima in the events and aftermath of the atomic bomb. Through sharing the memories and experiences of the survivors, she hopes to prevent this kind of suffering from happening in the future. Ms. Yamaoka is an A-bomb legacy successor who works closely with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. She participated in a meeting for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2015. She travels around Japan, and has also given talks in cities such as New York and Toronto where she has reached over 10,000 people since 2015.
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