.: Keiko Murakami Biography:

* 1937, born in Hiroshima

* 1945, August 6th, evacuates and survives the Atomic bomb just 1.7 km from Ground Zero. Symptoms of radiation poisoning start 2 months later and health stabilizes approximately half a year later.

*1981, begins writing essays, books and children’s literature focusing on war evasion, and peace.

* 1994, begins speaking out about her personal experiences of the bombing.

* 1998, goes on her first peace pilgrimage to Myanmar. Sent by World Friendship Center on a peace pilgrimage to 5 northern states in the US. Meets Keiko Holmes, president of AGAPE (an organization that helps heal the 300 families of British POWs in the Far East - http:// www.agape-reconciliation.org).

*1999, visits England at Keiko Holmes’ invitation to meet the AGAPE families. She then started a branch of AGAPE in Hiroshima.

*2001, August 6th, presents a collaborative choir piece, ‘Sekai no inochi = Hiroshima no Kokoro (Life in the world = the Heart of Hiroshima)’, at the opening ceremony of the International Symposium of Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Hiroshima, and has been the opening song every year since then.

*2002, May: Keiko and 21 members of Civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki visit 9-11 Ground Zero in N.Y.

* 2004: A member of NGO “HIROSHIMA SPEAKS OUT” – an organization launched in hopes of sharing the Hiroshima experience with the world. This involves a vigorous process of digging out buried data and creating website publications and CD compilations.

* 2006 March: Travels the world with marimba player, Keiko Kotoku, who wrote the song “Gaku” that tells how important it is to learn from the experience of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, through music and Keiko Murakami’s story telling.

*2008 May, at Colgate University, NY, coordinated Hiroshima/Nagasaki studies.

* 1998 to present, goes on peace pilgrimages to Myanmar, North American, England, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Czech, Patagonia, Argentina and Buenos Aires. She has lectured at the United Nations in Sweden, and presented at many universities around the world. Lectures at schools, meetings and anti-war movement organizations in Japan as well as counseling educators regarding peace studies for the next generation. She has also been writing essays for the Joyo Newspapers in Japan since 2005. She has coached actors on Hiroshima dailect

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