An event was held on the 19th to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Miki Sawada's birth, who worked hard to protect children born between Japanese women and American soldiers after the war.
Miki Sawada was born in the founding family of the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, and in 1948 established the facility "Elizabeth Saunders Home" in Oiso Town, Kanagawa Prefecture, to protect children born between Japanese and American soldiers. ..
The home is now an orphanage, and on the 19th, the 120th anniversary of Mr. Sawada's birth, an event was held at the memorial hall on the premises.
The event was held with a limited number of participants as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus, and after the priest prayed, the stained glass was lit when the bell was lit to signal the sunset.
Children with overseas roots who were born shortly after the war were called "mixed-race children" at that time, and it is said that they were abandoned shortly after birth.
Mr. Sawada accepted about 2000 of these children at the facility and provided education and vocational training.
Hisae Takei, Chief Advisor of the Sawada Miki Memorial Hall, said, "There are many generations who do not know the postwar turmoil, but I would like to pass on the achievements of Miki Sawada who fought to protect vulnerable people to posterity." I was talking.
The memorial hall is closed for the time being to prevent infection, but the stained glass will be lit up until the 23rd of this month.