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  • Hibakujumoku Translation: “The Tree Doctor of Hiroshima”

    In my search for information on hibakujumoku, I cracked open Yūko Ishida’s book Meeting Hiroshima’s Trees (広島の木に会いにいく) and was immediately engrossed. I want to share the book’s stories, both of trees and […]

  • Exhibit on Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Held in Jordan

    On December 17, 2016, the Japan International Cooperation Agency held an exhibition and workshop on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Amman, Jordan. The event, target at Jordanian Japanese […]

  • Listen to Panflutes Made from Hibakujumoku

    Hiroshima’s Senda Elementary School created a CD last December of the school’s Panflute and Chorus Club playing three songs on panflutes made from a kaizuka-ibuki hibakujomoku that had grown on […]

  • Hibakusha Petition U.N. for Nuclear Ban Treaty — Signatures Needed

    The Hiroshima and Nagasaki hibakusha community is gathering signatures for a petition to the United Nations asking for the banning and elimination of nuclear weapons. According the the petition’s page on […]

  • Nine Introductions to Hibakujumoku

    On November 4, Tokyo University of Agriculture Professor Yoichi Kunii, Kuniko Watanabe, and myself traversed the streets, gardens, hills, shrines, and temples of Hiroshima to gather data on hibakujumoku (atomic-bombed […]