News
2020-10-17
Trophies of war heading home: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/ataglance/1187/ Meet the people sending battlefield trophies home after 75 years.
2020-10-09
Bringing Closure, One Flag at a Time https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/videos/20201008202516214/ A Japanese woman and her American husband are returning long-lost relics of Japanese soldiers who...
2020-10-08
2020年10月6日付：中日新聞にて https://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/132602 寄せ書き日章旗、遺族の元に揖斐川町の戦没者追悼式で 太平洋戦争で戦地に向かう日本兵に贈られた寄せ書き入りの日章旗が五日、揖斐川町の戦没者遺族に届けられた。 同町三輪の三輪神社であった戦没者追悼式典に合わせて返還され、関係者らが平和を守る思いを新たにした。 旗の持ち主は、同町三輪...
2020-09-23
"Returning relics to heal scars of war" They say time heals all wounds, but sometimes the healing can take decades. Seventy-five years after the end of World War Two, some people are still working to ...
2020-09-04
Episode 16- September 1 Erica Karmeisool: Generational trauma, passed down through a veteran family, is exposed when a granddaughter returns her grandfather’s war trophy. https://www.youtube.com/watch...
2020-09-03
Returning Relics to Heal Wounds of War: NHK WORLD- JAPAN News World War II may have ended 75 years ago but many of the emotional wounds remain. NHK World's Yotsumoto Jun reports on a project that aims...
2020-09-02
Daily Astorian: Peace comes from within the heart When British Veteran, Charles Gower Neville contacted OBON SOCIETY, he was 99 years old! We spoke with him directly and he was very happy of this succ...
2020-08-31
Daily Californian- OBON SOCIETY: The radical act of empathy https://www.dailycal.org/2020/08/28/the-obon-society-empathy/
2020-08-29
OBON SOCIETY had an interview and featured the radio and online versions of NPR news. Here is a link to the story: https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/tidying-past-pandemic-house-cleanings-produce-offe...
2020-08-28
Episode 14- August 25 Michele Simons: A WWII veteran's daughter explains the need to show respect to all families who send their sons off to war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmYKBQwkzcY Episode 15...
