Canadian students learn about A-bombed city from Hiroshima students in Peace Memorial Park
Feb. 12, 2017
by Mei Hashihara, Staff Writer
On February 11, 15 high school students from Canada, who have been visiting Hiroshima as part of an exchange project sponsored by Japan’s Foreign Ministry, were guided to the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims and the A-bombed buildings located in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park by students from Hiroshima Jogakuin High School.
The Canadian students are from Saint-Laurent, Quebec. Sixteen students from Hiroshima Jogakuin High School accompanied them as their guides and provided information about some of the monuments and the history of Hiroshima, in English, at eight different locations in the park, including the Children’s Peace Monument and the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound. At the Rest House, which endured the bombing, the Jogakuin High School students said that out of 37 people who were in the building on the day of the atomic bombing, only one person, who was in the basement at the time, managed to survive. The Canadian students listened to the explanations with keen interest.
Eman Ilyas, 15, a first-year student from Saint-Laurent, said that she was happy to be able to visit the place to which the paper cranes she made when she was an elementary school student were sent, but she also gained a sharp sense of the horror of the atomic bomb. She added that she will tell her family about what she saw and felt in Hiroshima.
The exchange project seeks to promote mutual understanding among the young people of Japan and North America. The Canadian students arrived in Hiroshima on February 8 and have been involved in interactions with the Hiroshima students through homestays and other activities. The Jogakuin High School students will visit Saint-Laurent in March.
(Originally published on February 12, 2017)
On February 11, 15 high school students from Canada, who have been visiting Hiroshima as part of an exchange project sponsored by Japan’s Foreign Ministry, were guided to the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims and the A-bombed buildings located in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park by students from Hiroshima Jogakuin High School.
The Canadian students are from Saint-Laurent, Quebec. Sixteen students from Hiroshima Jogakuin High School accompanied them as their guides and provided information about some of the monuments and the history of Hiroshima, in English, at eight different locations in the park, including the Children’s Peace Monument and the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound. At the Rest House, which endured the bombing, the Jogakuin High School students said that out of 37 people who were in the building on the day of the atomic bombing, only one person, who was in the basement at the time, managed to survive. The Canadian students listened to the explanations with keen interest.
Eman Ilyas, 15, a first-year student from Saint-Laurent, said that she was happy to be able to visit the place to which the paper cranes she made when she was an elementary school student were sent, but she also gained a sharp sense of the horror of the atomic bomb. She added that she will tell her family about what she saw and felt in Hiroshima.
The exchange project seeks to promote mutual understanding among the young people of Japan and North America. The Canadian students arrived in Hiroshima on February 8 and have been involved in interactions with the Hiroshima students through homestays and other activities. The Jogakuin High School students will visit Saint-Laurent in March.
(Originally published on February 12, 2017)
