｜Length : 25min ｜Year : 2024 ｜

Hiroshima Notes was written in the 1960s by Oe Kenzaburo, a Nobel Prize-winning author. The book has been translated into nine languages and remains a bestseller that is read worldwide. This program revisits the messages of "Hiroshima Notes" and explores the individuals and locations associated with Oe. Interviewees share what it means to them and emphasize the importance of passing down its values to promote peace.

｜Length : 25min ｜Year : 2024 ｜

After the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, it was said no plants would grow there for 75 years. Yet despite this, some trees survived the bomb and are still alive today. A tree doctor has spent over 30 years providing them with dedicated care - 78-year-old Horiguchi Chikara. As Hiroshima’s very first tree doctor, he checks on each of the surviving trees, manages their records, and provides treatment to those which need it. He’s also developed relationships with the city’s bomb survivors who feel a special bond with these trees, and their perspectives have shaped his conservation work. As wars around the world draw more international eyes to these extraordinary trees, we follow Horiguchi’s daily life with them.

｜Length : 25min ｜Year : 2024 ｜

Memorials line Hiroshima's Peace Boulevard, each inscribed with the names of those who died when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Over 50,000 people were killed on August 6th alone, and many of the victims were children as young as 12 and 13 years old. The reason for their presence in the area? They had been ordered to tear down the homes along the road to widen it. We visit their memorials and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, where the remnants of these young lives are carefully preserved.

｜Length : 49min ｜Year : 2023 ｜

Okinawa Prefecture is a group of subtropical islands in the south of Japan. It previously thrived as a separate country called the Ryukyu Kingdom, which maintained its independence for 450 years. It did this by accepting and incorporating foreign influences. That approach proved useful once again in the 20th century, during the postwar US occupation. In this program, broadcaster Peter Barakan meets people who worked hard to heal the wounds of war, and reconstruct Okinawa's cultural heritage.

｜Length : 24.45min ｜Year : 2023 ｜

Keiko Ogura, age 85, has spent her life talking to the world about her experiences as an A-bomb victim in Hiroshima. Feeling helpless in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she decides to participate in a symposium in a small college town in Idaho, U.S.A., where many people accept the existence of nuclear weapons. Determined to hear their side of the story, she engages in dialogue and discovers circumstances she had never understood before. When it’s her turn to give a presentation, how does she convey her own beliefs?