Resuming lectures about schoolchildren's experience of atomic bombing Nagasaki August 26, 19:28
The lecture that the atomic bomb survivors in Nagasaki, who had been canceled due to the new coronavirus, told the school trip students about their experiences of the bombing has resumed.
The Nagasaki Peace Promotion Association, which is made up of Nagasaki City and the A-bomb victims and citizens, is conducting an “explosion-experience talk” activity in which the A-bomb victims talk about their experiences to school excursions visiting Nagasaki City. It was canceled until the end of last month.
The acceptance of lecture requests was resumed this month, and the first lecture was held on the 26th at the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.
Nagasaki city survivor Michiko Yagi (81), who was bombed at home about 3.3 km from the hypocenter on the 26th, talked about his experience in front of 170 junior high school students.
Among them, Mr. Yagi said, "I had no roof crying in the neighborhood, and there were no crying cicadas even though it was summer. There was a strange smell in the evacuated air-proof cane," he recalled. It was
"I will give you a peace baton. I hope you all return to today and tell your family. It will help make peace."
A junior high school girl student who listened to the lecture said, "The story I heard from the people of the hibakusha was a concrete and valuable opportunity. I would like to tell this story to junior school students from now on."
Mr. Yagi said, “It was my first time to have a talk with a mask. I was happy to hear that the students listened seriously.”