Kawaijuku School Corporation
2024 Kawaijuku Cultural Lecture “Beyond the history that never passes – Excavation of human remains and the journey of young people” Kawaijuku Kamihonmachi School
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On Saturday, June 15th, Kawaijuku Uehonmachi School will hold a cultural lecture titled “Beyond the Timeless History – Excavation of Human Remains and the Journey of Young People” for junior high and high school students and their parents. The lecturer will be Yoshihiko Tonohira, a monk who presides over a Japan-Korea joint workshop in Fukagawa City, Hokkaido, which is working on excavating and returning the remains of Korean forced labor victims.
At the lecture, there was a screening of the documentary film “So Long Asleep,” which documents the workshop’s journey to return the remains of forced labor victims, as well as a screening of the documentary film “So Long Asleep,” which records the journey of the workshop to return the remains of forced labor victims. Mr. Tonohira will give a lecture. We will tell you how the young people who gathered for the workshop faced their past history and fostered friendships through their efforts.
Please use your media to introduce this project as an opportunity for junior high and high school students to become interested in history and the future through the efforts of Japanese and Korean youth. Interviews are also welcome.
[What is Kawaijuku Cultural Lecture?]
At Kawaijuku, we want to provide our students, who are going through an impressionable period, with an opportunity not only to study for entrance exams, but also to broaden their horizons and deepen their knowledge, so we hold a “Cultural Lecture” where they can listen to talks from people from various fields. We are implementing it. A total of six sessions are scheduled for fiscal 2024, and this will be the first.
■Cultural lecture “Beyond the history that never passes – Excavation of human remains and the journey of young people” Implementation guidelines
Date and time: Saturday, June 15, 2024, 13:30-15:30 (scheduled) *Doors open at 13:00
Venue: Kawaijuku Uehonmachi School – 3-1-11 Kamishio, Tennoji-ku, Osaka-shi Target audience: Junior and senior high school students, high school graduates, and parents (people other than Keio University students are also welcome to participate)
Contents: Part 1: Documentary film “So Long Asleep” (2016) Screening Director/Producer: D.W. Blaas (Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois) Part 2 Lecture by Mr. Yoshihiko Tonohira
“Reconciliation and peace created by young people across borders -Looking back on the history of East Asian joint workshops.” Moderator: Katsunori Arai (Kawaijuku Modern Literature Instructor) Participation fee: Free
Application: Required. Please apply online. *It will close as soon as the capacity is reached.
https://www.kawai-juku.ac.jp/event/list/dtl0000033321
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Lecture information (leaflet)
https://www.kawaijuku.jp/jp/news/pdf/20240603_uehonmachi.pdf ◆Speaker profile
[Image: https://prtimes.jp/i/30937/47/resize/d30937-47-691d4effa381305863f1-0.jpg&s3=30937-47-b09a4339f75302c7767357bf7487a63f-264×198.jpg] Speaker: Yoshihiko Tonohira
Chief priest of Jodo Shinshu Honganji-ha Ichijoji Temple (Fukagawa City, Hokkaido). Since the 1970s, he has been working on excavating the remains of Korean victims of forced abduction and forced labor. In 1997, he presided over a Japan-Korea joint workshop on excavating human remains in Shumarinai with young people from Japan, South Korea, and residents of Japan. In 2015, the remains of 115 victims were returned to South Korea. Since then, we have been supporting East Asia joint workshops and promoting exchanges among young people from East Asia.
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