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Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Course
－Central Connecticut State University－
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The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are asking colleges and universities around the world to establish and promote Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Courses designed to analyze and disseminate A-bomb lessons as a common social and intellectual asset for humankind.
On June 6 and 7, 2015, fourteen students and two teachers from Central Connecticut State University (US), which offers the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Course, visited Hiroshima for a field trip.
While in Hiroshima the group visited Peace Memorial Park and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, listened to an atomic bomb testimony by Ms. Keiko Ogura, and participated in a recital of atomic bomb poetry at the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.
Through such activities they learned about the actual damage from the atomic bombing.
In addition they also had opportunities to interact with students from Hiroshima University of Economics.
The teacher leading the students this time was Professor Tomoda, a second-generation A-bomb survivor whose late mother's picture is registered in the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims.
In this way the participants felt even closer to the atomic bombing and communicating the memory of it to future generations.
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The group from Central Connecticut State University after
listening to the atomic bomb testimony by Ms. Keiko Ogura
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Learning about the bombing at
close hand through viewing the
portrait of Professor Tomoda's
late mother
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