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“painful” memories, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing
kicked off Ohio University’s International Week with a standing
room-only crowd in Baker University Center Ballroom. OU
President Roderick McDavis began the week’s festivities by
welcoming the keynote speaker, Koko Kondo. Kondo was 8 months
old when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on
Aug. 6, 1945. “Ohio University is an international university,”
McDavis said. “It’s not until you find your differences that you
find your similarities.” Several of the international students
had visited the site of the Hiroshima bombing while at home,
said Satoko Takahashi, a sophomore studying English and English
culture from Nagoya, Japan. “In Japan, we learned about the
Hiroshima bombing in elementary school,” Takahashi said. “I only
saw pictures, but then our school went to Hiroshima a couple
hours away by train and saw the site in ruin.” The bombing site
is attached to deep cul