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Students from our 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 implemented by the cities of Ome and Hamura with the aim of deepening the learning and thoughts on 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, where the atomic bomb was dropped.
In the pre-training, the participants learned about history, including the events leading up to World War II and the Asia-Pacific War, and visited historical war sites during their visit to Hiroshima, deepening their understanding of the tragedy 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 culmination of their trip, a report 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 she was in her first year of junior high school, and this was her 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 with the junior high school students the knowledge and experience she had gained from previous visits to Hiroshima. "During the post-training, the junior high school students were trying to put into their own words what they felt and thought about their visit to Hiroshima, and I was worried about 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 better words from the junior high school students," she said, reflecting on her activities as a university student leader.
Teikyo University will continue to support the various initiatives of its students.

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