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Students from Hachioji Campusparticipated in the Ome-Hamura Peace Messenger Project as university student leaders.

From June to August 2024, Ayaka Nakayama (3rd year, Faculty of Law) from Teikyo University participated in the Ome-Hamura Peace Messenger Project as a university student leader. This project is run by the cities of Ome and Hamura with the aim of deepening learning and feelings about peace through learning about war among junior high school students living in the cities and interacting with survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima City.
In the pre-training, the participants learned about history, including the events leading up to World War II and the Asia-Pacific War, and during their visit to Hiroshima they toured wartime historical sites and deepened their understanding of the horrors of war and their thoughts about peace through interactions with local junior high school students and atomic bomb survivors.In the post-training, they prepared to convey in their own words what they felt and thought during their visit to Hiroshima, and at the culminating debriefing session, they presented what they experienced and learned in this program as "Peace Messengers" in front of the mayors of Ome and Hamura, as well as other related parties.
Nakayama first participated in this project when he was in his first year of junior high school, and this was his second time participating as a university student leader in charge of coordinating the junior high school students. Nakayama, who participated with the goal of becoming a "leader who can empathize with the feelings of junior high school students," supported one group from the pre-training to the dispatch report meeting, while sharing the knowledge and experiences he had gained from previous visits to Hiroshima with the junior high school students. Reflecting on his activities as a university student leader, he said, "During the post-training, the junior high school students were trying to put into words what they felt and thought about their visit to Hiroshima, and I struggled to know how to give them advice, but with the help of the other leaders and the administrative staff, I think I was able to draw out the best words from them."
Teikyo University will continue to support the various initiatives of its students.

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