My latest English Broadcasting below: visit after 10∶00pm (JST)on Aug.6
https://stand.fm/episodes/62edf86cbb9a858305a4af0f

Hello, everyone. How are you today? It's Teacher Asuka.

Today, I would like to consider 'Peace'.

As you know, every August is a month of 'thinking War and Peace' in Japan.

The reason is that a lot of people in all over Japan were bombed out in an air raid as well as died a lot taken part in the war. Okinawa was a battlefield in June at the end of war time. Hiroshima on August 6th and Nagasaki on August 9th were devastated severely during the Second World War by the terrible atomic bombing in 1945 for the first time in the world. Moreover, many people were suffered from food shortage and water-supply, dearth of medicine, public sanitation, and shelter.

In the end, it is said Japan has lost its land about 1 over 4 in the war.

I used to be a guide member of the volunteers at a Peace Museum in Kyoto.

I have guided visitors to explain and think what the war is all about on the 1st floor of the museum and what the peace is on the 2nd floor using various kinds of expositions there. One of my colleagues who was a primary school teacher has taught me a 'senryu', a seventeen-syllable poem such as 'The 6th, the 9th, and the 15th in every August is the day when we should never forget'. August 15th is a Memorial Day for Japan’s War Ending.

Do you know how many peace museums are there in the world? There are about 100 peace museums in the world. It is said that around 50% of them are in Japan, because there have been many devastated things and the people during the war. In Japanese school, students are taught such war in social studies. Therefore, all the Japanese people have knowledge of war and indescribable sadness and sufferings.

Finally, I would like you to ask and think what kind of things we need to create or keep 'Peace'.

As for myself, I will cherish my family and friends, try to make efforts to spend life in peace with smiling as Mother Teresa used to say that ‘Peace begins with a smile’.

In addition, I will visit various peace museums more than once, to read and learn some books, and watch many films relating war and peace, other than that, as well as helping others in need, I will plant 'the seeds of Peace' through the things above in daily life.

May continuing wishes for peace as well as acting for peace give us real peace!

Thank you for joining me as always.

See you next time!


Teacher Asuka