Hiroko Komiya

Highlights: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Remembrance this year included emcee Kimmy Igla and speakers Hiroko Komiya, Analisa Colom-Todd, Theodore John, Breanna Crawford, and Lakota singer Jason Swartley.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki remembrance & potluck 8/6

Please join PeaceWorks in our Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance on Aug. 6 at Loose Park pond. Our veggie potluck is at 6 pm; our program is at 7.

Recalling 1945 bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Echoes. Hope. Two hands. These came into play at our annual observance Aug. 7, “Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Never Again!”

Hiroko Komiya reflects on Hiroshima bombing

Hiroko Komiya, raised near Tokyo, Japan, speaks of a childhood friend of hers whose mother died of leukemia, a result of radiation from the bombing of Hiroshima.

‘Muddy, bloody, and burnt’—Nagasaki bomb survivors

Keiko Baker shares—for the first time in public—her memories from living in Japan in 1945 and the impact of the Nagasaki bomb on her and her family.

Remembering Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings ‘weighs heavy on my heart’

Hiroko Komiya tells of her fourth-grade friend whose mother died from exposure to radiation in the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima.

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