Hiroshima/Nagasaki A-bomb Exhibit

Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-bomb Exhibit
with an A-bomb Survivor's Lecture
at Purdue University
February 18 - March 1, 2008

Event poster: English version AI, JPG, PDF Japanese version: AI, PDF

Scheduled Events

Poster Exhibition & Senbazuru Making
February 18, 2008- March 1, 2008
9 am - 5 pm (M-F)
Stanley Coulter Hall (First floor)
(There will be an origami crane making station set up.)*

Movie showing

Rie Miyazawa and Yoshio Harada in
"Face of Jizo" （父と暮らせば）(2004)
(in Japanese with English subtitle)
7 pm on February 22 (Friday)
Stanley Coulter Hall 239
A post-screening discussion (Prof. Kazumi Hatasa, discussant)

Lecture by Ms. Sachiko Masuoka
(a Hiroshima A-bomb survivor)
with Prof. Yuki Miyamoto
(Assistant Professor, DePaul University)
1 pm on February 23 (Saturday)
Wetherill Hall 200
(The thirty posters will be on display in Wetherill Hall from 11 am on February 23.)

1 pm
Greetings by Dr. Howard Mancing, Head, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Opening remarks by Hon. Kenji Shinoda, Consul General of Japan at Chicago

Welcomimg words by Dr. John Contreni, Dean, College of Liberal Arts

1:30pm ~ 3pm
Personal account of the a-bomb in Hiiroshima
by Ms. Sachiko Masuoka with Dr. Yuki Miyamoto

3pm
Open discussion with Ms. Masuoka and informal reception

* To K-12 teachers: If would like your students to start making cranes ahead of time, feel free to bring them. We will be happy to incorporate them into our set if you like. Some of the posters have photographs and drawings of a-bomb victims which may not be suitable for younger audience. Please be advised.

The set of the thirty posters has been donated by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. If any of the teachers would like to use them for another event, please contact Kazumi Hatasa (khatasa@purdue.edu).

Parking on campus: Parking on Saturday (2/23) should be easy. All parking structures are open to public on weekend for free. (No permit is necessary for any general spots marked as A, B, or C.) Parking Garage University Street (PGU) or Parking Garage Grant Street (PGG) will be closest Wetherill Hall (WTHR). Purdue campus map

PRESS RELEASE

January 28, 2008

Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor to speak at Purdue exhibit

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — An Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor will speak about her experience as part of the Feb. 18 to March 1 Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition at Purdue University.

Sachiko Masuoka, an 85-year-old Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor and Chicago resident, will talk about her experience at 1 p.m., on Feb. 23 in Room 200 of Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry. Yuki Miyamoto, an assistant professor of religious studies at DePaul University and a second-generation hibakusya , which means atomic bomb survivor , will join her, says Kazumi Hatasa, Purdue professor of Japanese and event organizer.

Thirty poster panels will be on display in the first-floor hallways of Stanley Coulter from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Feb. 18 to March 1. There also will be an origami making station for senbazuru, which means 1,000 cranes, on the first floor of Stanley Coulter. The station is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but large groups including local school classes can make an appointment by contacting Hatasa at khatasa@purdue.edu . The cranes will be sent to the Hiroshima Children Memorial to be registered and displayed.

The movie "Face of Jizo: Chichi to Kuraseba," a 2004 Japanese film with English subtitles, will be shown at 7 p.m., Feb. 22 in Stanley Coulter, Room 239. Hatasa will lead the discussion after the showing. The movie is a story of a survivor three years after the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945.

All events are free and open to the public. The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the Asian studies program, the Peace studies program and the College of Liberal Arts are sponsoring the events. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum also is a supporter.

Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.eduSource: Kazumi Hatasa, (765) 494-3846, khatasa@purdue.edu

Pressrelease file: Hiroshima-pressrelease.doc

Related Web sites:

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/fll/

Photos

Exhibit at Stanley Coulter Hall