Music as a Force for Peace
July 2004
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SGI News: Global activities for peace, education and culture
Atomic Bomb Experience
The story of Soka Gakkai member Miyako Shinohara is included in Discovering the Twentieth Century World, a history textbook for university-level students in the U.S.A. published by Houghton Mifflin. Her experience was originally introduced in a book edited by the Soka Gakkai Women's Peace Committee and published in 1982 (released in English as Women Against War: Personal Accounts of Forty Japanese Women). Ms. Shinohara was in her mother's womb when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Overcoming radiation sickness and discrimination against victims of the atomic bomb, Ms. Shinohara raised three children while engaging in peace activities as a member of the Soka Gakkai.
