Keiko Ogura, one of the few remaining survivors of the August 6, 1945, Hiroshima atomic bombing, will speak to University of Idaho students through a free Zoom webinar on Thursday, April 16, from 5 to 6:15 p.m. Registration is free and open to everyone, and must be completed in advance.
Ogura was 8 years old in 1945, and lived 1.5 miles away from the hypocenter. She has shared her experience with world leaders and people from more than 50 countries. In 2011, she was appointed as the official A-bomb storyteller by the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. In May 2023, Keiko spoke to leaders attending the G7 Summit and, in 2024 she received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from UI.
Ogura has spoken to UI students annually since September 2022, when she was invited by the Japanese instructor Azusa Tojo who had previously heard her testimony, to visit Moscow. After her visit, students at UI worked to translate a picture-story show of Ogura’s story created by students at Motomachi High School in Hiroshima into English, which they brought and presented when they visited Hiroshima in the summer of 2023.
A link for registration can be found through the UI events page.
Joshua Reisenfeld can be reached at [email protected].