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Support for Universities offering the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Course
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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 and the message of the survivors as a common social and intellectual asset for humankind, so that it can be communicated to the future generations.
This Foundation provided program support when the two universities below conducted peace studies in Hiroshima from November 2018 to January 2019.
DePaul University (United States)
From November 30 to December 9, a total of 18 participants (16 students and 2 teachers) from
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DePaul University, which offers the course, participated in peace studies in Hiroshima City and Nagasaki City.
This was the seventh time that this university has visited Hiroshima.
In Hiroshima, the group visited the Peace Memorial Museum and Peace Memorial Park, and in Nagasaki toured places such as Oka Masaharu Memorial Nagasaki Peace Museum and Urakami Cathedral.
In both cities, they learned about the truth of the atomic bombing by listening to an atomic bomb testimony.
The group also held discussions with local university students, thus deepening their understanding of peace from various perspectives.
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Visiting Peace Memorial Museum
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Guided by a peace volunteer in Peace Memorial Park
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Kyungpook National University (South Korea)
On January 9, a total of twenty-one participants (20 students and 1 teacher) from Kyungpook National University, College of Humanities conducted peace studies in Hiroshima City for the first time since the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Study Course was certified at that university in 2018.
The group visited the Peace Memorial Museum and Peace Memorial Park, and listened to atomic bomb testimony by Kaneji Ota, learning about the truth of the atomic bombing.
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