Better Business
October 2006
Banner photo: Partially Harvested Corn Field/corbis
Remembering War, Striving for Peace
The Soka Gakkai Women's Peace Committee in Japan has created a Japanese-language DVD entitled "For the Sake of Peace: Women's War Testimonies," based on interviews with women directly affected by the Second World War to document for posterity the reality of war and to counteract propaganda that sanitizes or glorifies armed conflict. The DVD includes war testimonies and cries for peace from 31 women across Japan. The women's division members plan to show the DVD at peace forums and will also present it to local educational organizations as a peace education tool. Copies have been donated to 624 public libraries throughout Japan.
On August 6, SGI-Denmark, together with Pugwash Denmark, the Danish Peace Academy and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) Denmark, sponsored an antinuclear peace rally titled "Hiroshima Day 2006."
At the SGI-UK event
[Escarlata Bermejo]
Some 210 activists and experts, together with SGI-Denmark youth, gathered at Askov Folk High School in Vejen city, to exchange views on the perils of the nuclear threat and effective curtailment strategies, including citizen activism.
On August 5, SGI-UK members held a Hiroshima Peace Day at their South London National Centre in Brixton. Speakers included Junko Osanai whose grandfather was in Hiroshima at the time the bomb was dropped, and paintings by A-bomb survivors depicting the horror of nuclear devastation were exhibited.
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