Friday, September 6, 2-4pm, Campbell Hall [Rm. 100], 1787 Neil Ave.

Ms. Yamaoka is a daughter of atomic bomb survivors and a certified A-Bomb Legacy Successor who closely works with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Her parents are victims of radiation sickness caused by the bomb. As an A-Bomb Legacy Successor, she passes on the survivors’ stories and wishes on their behalf. She participated in a meeting for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2015. She travels around Japan for her talks, and also gives talks abroad in cities such as New York and Toronto. Audiences of over 10,000 attended her talks since 2015.

The purpose of this presentation is to show the harsh reality of what happened in Hiroshima in the events and aftermath of the atomic bomb. By sharing the memoirs and experiences of atomic bomb survivors, we hope to prevent this kind of suffering from happening to anyone again.

Presented by OSU Institute for Japanese Studies [East Asian Studies Center]; sponsored by OSU Environmental Science Graduate Program [ESGP] and Japan America Society of Central Ohio [JASCO].