Kirk here, thinking "learn something everyday" because, even after running this …

Kirk here, thinking “learn something everyday” because, even after running this page for a long time, I still keep finding stuff I don’t know about Kumamoto. Today I learned that Kumamoto has a local organization to promote world peace and that each year they chose a high school student to be their “Peace Ambassador.” This year it was FUKUHARA An (pictured) of Kyushu Gakuin High School. She (and others?) collected signatures in favor of the abolition of nuclear weapons that, if it hadn’t been for COVID-19, she would have delivered in person to the United Nations Office in Geneva.

The TV segment I saw can be found here: https://rkk.jp/news/index.php?id=NS003202204071759500111 (The screenshot is from this.)

An article in Japanese about Ms. Fukuhara that is on the Kyushu Gakuen websited (Japanese-language only, unfortunately) is here: https://kyugaku.ed.jp/hs/news/2021/05/2-24.php

And the website of the “Kumamoto Organization of Peace Ambassadors” (my unofficial translation of 平和大使協議会) can be found here: http://3752906peace.org/index.html

Peace!