On a trip earlier this month, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba addressed U.S. counterparts on efforts to stop nuclear proliferation. But, as the Hiroshima Peace Media Center reported, he didn’t get a chance to lobby top Obama administration officials for a…
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Zen and a Catholic survivor
by Joe Copeland • • 2 Comments
I was in Tokyo last week and did something I had been thinking about for more than 20 years. Inspired still by the memory of meeting a Catholic priest who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, I went to a…
DVDs and Hiroshima
by Joe Copeland • • 0 Comments
I had a chance today to talk with Minoru Maeda, an animation director and teacher who did a beautiful movie on the atomic bombing. He was born in 1970, but recalls family stories of the bombing and its aftermath as…
Hiroshima mayor to visit U.S.
by Joe Copeland • • 0 Comments
Hiroshima’s Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba will travel to the United States next week on a trip that will include a speech to American mayors about the anti-nuclear and peace movement. Akiba has good connections in the United States and could have…