In a speech to students in Hiroshima, Hideaki Ota reflects on Japan's modernization, the people who shaped it, and his hopes for the country's future. The post Media Veteran to Students: Hope Comes From the Past first appeared on JAPAN Forward .

Eighty years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, artist Sandy Walker believes art still has the power to cut through abstraction and confront people with the human reality of nuclear violence. Inspired by the writings of Hiroshima survivor Tamiki Hara, Walker’s work seeks to transform historical catastrophe into intimate acts of memory, grief and attention.