Reporters from U.S. news agency visit Hiroshima to make programs on nuclear weapons for American students
Aug. 1, 2014
by Michiko Tanaka, Staff Writer
Two reporters from Channel One News, which produces news programs for middle school and high school students and distributes them to 8,000 schools in the United States, visited Hiroshima on July 27 to gather information on the destruction caused by the atomic bombing. They will stay in Hiroshima until July 28. Their feature programs on nuclear weapons will begin airing next January.
Maggie Rulli, 26, and Keith Kocinski, 25, visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Naka Ward. The two reporters then paid a visit to Miyoko Oya, 74, an A-bomb survivor who lives in Higashi Ward, and interviewed Ms. Oya and her granddaughter, Miku Yamashita, 15, a first-year student at Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School.
Ms. Oya told the reporters about her experience of the atomic bombing while in Shinonomecho (part of today’s Minami Ward), three kilometers from the hypocenter. She was five years old at the time. “I would like young people to understand the horror of war,” she said. Ms. Yamashita, who is a junior writer at the Chugoku Shimbun, said in an earnest tone, “Nuclear weapons must not be held by any nation. I would like people to listen to the voices of A-bomb survivors.”
Channel One News also distributes programs to CBS, one of the three major networks in the United States, as well as via the Internet. The reporters said that their coverage on this visit will be used in producing programs that review the history of nuclear development and the current state of nuclear disarmament. Ms. Rulli said, “The damage done by the atomic bombing must be known more widely, particularly in the United States. We would like to convey the precious voices of A-bomb survivors.” On July 28, they will interview students who are studying about peace at Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School in Naka Ward.
(Originally published on July 28, 2014)
Two reporters from Channel One News, which produces news programs for middle school and high school students and distributes them to 8,000 schools in the United States, visited Hiroshima on July 27 to gather information on the destruction caused by the atomic bombing. They will stay in Hiroshima until July 28. Their feature programs on nuclear weapons will begin airing next January.
Maggie Rulli, 26, and Keith Kocinski, 25, visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Naka Ward. The two reporters then paid a visit to Miyoko Oya, 74, an A-bomb survivor who lives in Higashi Ward, and interviewed Ms. Oya and her granddaughter, Miku Yamashita, 15, a first-year student at Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School.
Ms. Oya told the reporters about her experience of the atomic bombing while in Shinonomecho (part of today’s Minami Ward), three kilometers from the hypocenter. She was five years old at the time. “I would like young people to understand the horror of war,” she said. Ms. Yamashita, who is a junior writer at the Chugoku Shimbun, said in an earnest tone, “Nuclear weapons must not be held by any nation. I would like people to listen to the voices of A-bomb survivors.”
Channel One News also distributes programs to CBS, one of the three major networks in the United States, as well as via the Internet. The reporters said that their coverage on this visit will be used in producing programs that review the history of nuclear development and the current state of nuclear disarmament. Ms. Rulli said, “The damage done by the atomic bombing must be known more widely, particularly in the United States. We would like to convey the precious voices of A-bomb survivors.” On July 28, they will interview students who are studying about peace at Hiroshima Jogakuin Senior High School in Naka Ward.
(Originally published on July 28, 2014)
