Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nuclear War

We commemorate the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We spoke with Reiko Kato, Professor of Intercultural Communication, Pedagogy, Contemporary Social Issues, and Diversity, Inclusion and Equity at Kyushu Institute of Technology (Institute of Liberal Arts), Japan about how the bombings are remembered in Japan and how to maintain the collective memory as Hibakusha are dying. We also talk about Japan's imperial past and current push towards militarization and U.S. nuclear threat.