"To foster peace, one friend at a time."
World Friendship Center was founded by Barbara Reynolds on August 7th, 1965
(20 years after the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima) to provide a place where people from many nations can meet,
share their experiences and reflect on peace.
World Friendship Center has continued Barbara's vision of serving the Hiroshima community
and visitors to the city in a variety of ways.
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The Tanimoto Peace Foundation, in partnership with the Hiroshima World Friendship Center, is offering an Internship Scholarship to up to three motivated individuals to come to Hiroshima for one month. The purpose of their study is to learn about, research about, participate in and write about one of the four pillars of the Tanimoto Peace Foundation: History, Peace Education, Art and Spirituality. The internship will take place from July 4 – August 1, 2020 in Hiroshima, JAPAN. Qualifications: The TPF Intern should be: 18 years old at the time of arrival in Hiroshima Interested in the history of Hiroshima and the atomic bomb Open-minded and adaptable to new situations Well-organized…
Yu-ai Friendship Newsletter of the World Friendship Center, NPO WFC ReflectionNatalie Kuca(Translated by Mikiko Shimizu) At the end of May, one of the WFC board members, Tachibana-san invited me to visit a social welfare center in the area that had history with zainichi Koreans, which was one of my fields of interests in Japanese studies. Tachibana-san had worked in the day care at the center, and he was able to arrange for the director of the center to give us a tour of the facility and tell us about its history. By the end of the meeting, my interest was piqued and I offered to volunteer at the center once…
Yu-ai Friendship Newsletter of the World Friendship Center, NPO Experiencing Hiroshima through the World Friendship CenterYovana Milosevic(Translated by Sumiko Kanetsuna) Briefly living in Hiroshima, Japan and staying at the World Friendship Center is easily the biggest blessing in my life. I encountered an entirely different culture by living in it for a month and a half, and there were surprises waiting for me at every corner. I was able to participate in daily discussions involving peace, compassion, kindness, and debates on current world issues. I attended numerous lectures on not only Hiroshima’s history specifically, but also about how it has been represented in the media over time, what the current…
筆者は、フリージャーナリストでリンガヒロシマの英文校正者ナンシー・メイヤーさんです。
平和な明日を求める9.11遺族の会(September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows)の会員グループは、昨年秋にキューバ島にある米国グアンタナモ収容所を訪れました。遺族の会は、9.11直後ブッシュ政権に対し、自分たちの名を使って（"Not in Our Name") 新たな戦争と殺りくを行ってはならないと表明しました。この記事は、遺族の会のナンシー・メイヤーさんによる収容所訪問記です。
2001年9月11日に米国で発生した同時多発テロ事件の後、米国は「テロとの戦い」を開始し、アルカイダのメンバーを中心とするテロ容疑者たちを次々と摘発。延べ800名近くの容疑者を拘留しました。現在の収監者は40名。米国憲法や国際人道法に違反する厳
しい尋問や拷問に対して国際的な糾弾が続いています。
www.linguahiroshima.com/news/2020/09/21/how-we-made-justice-impossible-for-the-9-11-accused/
How We Made Justice Impossible for the 9/11 Accused | News: LinguaHiroshima
www.linguahiroshima.com
Nancy Meyer A retired editor and technical writer living in Nebraska, USA, addressed the audience of this year's American Muslim Voice Multifaith Virtual Peace Picnic,…Please sign and send the form to the email address indicated in the link!
In solidarity with our sisters and brothers in the
Korean Peninsula!
If you have US citizen friends or contacts overseas please pass along: If you are an American citizen you can vote in the election from overseas. I have already registered and voted via email ballot and my ballot has been confirmed as received. It is easy. States/counties have different rules. Some allow email ballots, others mailed or even faxed. Even if you haven't lived in the US in decades you can vote. Even if you have NEVER lived in the US you can vote. If you lived in the US before you can Google the last county you lived in. Google STATE NAME COUNTY NAME Board of Elections. You can also check this official site www.fvap.gov/ to find help. I registered online directly with my county board of elections. That might be easiest. Take a few minutes and help save the world!!
Americans can vote. Wherever they are.
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Ensuring Service members, their eligible family members and overseas citizens can vote -- from anywhere in the world.