November 08, 2008

 Nov 2008 Newsletter: Pangaea ring - Ms. Yuko Yamada

Hello. I am Yuko Yamada, alias Bambi. It has been 3 years since I started to participate in PANGAEA.

I was very shocked when I visited to Hiroshima and listened to the speech from a survivor of atomic-bombing. That made me start to think what I should do and what I can do for peace building. I then reached one conclusion that the approach I can take is to value peace and remove the choice of engaging in war, and not to emphasize of horrible history and make efforts to make better place. It is because the former could be inherited from generation to generation, even though they have not experienced such a horror. To make it feasible, I also realized it is necessary to work with children. So, it was lovely for me to know PANGAEA.


While I am learning International Relations at University, as is often said, I feel that it depends on people and it is exactly human relations itself. If any could face each other without stereotype and bias, though it might be a small step, it could lead the world to better direction eventually.

I hope children get over the wall of differences and learn to face to anyone mutually without prejudiced eyes through PANGAEA. At the same time, I think I would like to be a part of assistance always.

Yuko Yamada
Academic student, University of Tsukuba

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