Koko in the News
THE MAINICHI
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201019/p2a/00m/0na/010000c
NPR (National Public Radio)
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/09/900553387/an-atomic-bomb-survivor-on-her-journey-from-revenge-to-peace
ICAN
https://rise.icanw.org/koko_kondo
ABC Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-06/atomic-bomb-survivors-75-years-after-hiroshima-nuclear-attack/12501636
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/hiroshima-bombing-75th-anniversary-racism-atomic
Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/05/national/history/urgency-last-hiroshima-atom-bomb-victims/
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/08/05/world/asia/ap-as-japan-hiroshima-survivors.html
Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/hiroshima-75th-anniversary-preserving-survivors-message-of-peace/
BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08my5nq
Stories of our time
https://play.acast.com/s/storiesofourtimes/rememberinghiroshima
3CR Radio Station
https://www.3cr.org.au/radioactive/episode-202008081000/hiroshima-survivors-story-koko-kondo
KPCW
https://www.kpcw.org/post/atomic-bomb-survivor-her-journey-revenge-peace#stream/0
National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/08/elusive-horror-hiroshima/
Associated Press
https://apnews.com/450811a41cdcafb89d92b6a650d58505
Koko’s Activities in Japan
August 7
ICAN Academy / Online interview
August 3
INMP (The International Network of Museums for Peace) / Panelists discussion
July 27
ICAN Academy on Nuclear Weapons and Global Security via Zoom
May
Koko was aired on ETV on Thursday May 28th from 10 pm to 10:50 pm
December / Kyoto
Lecture for teachers at Doshisha Elementary School
Speech at Jodo shu Myokei Temple in Hiroshima.November
Attended the “meeting for peace” with Pope Francis and Setsuko Thurlow in Hiroshima.
Lecture at an Elementary School in Tokushima City.
October
Lecture at Doshisha Elementary School in Kyoto.
Keimyo gakuin Junior High School
September
Speech at Kobe Jogakuin
Speech at Elementary School in Miki-City, Hyogo-Prefecture.
May 27 / Kobe
Koko gave a speech at Kobe Jogakuin
May 22 / Sendai
Koko gave a speech at Miyagi Jogakuin
May 18 / Tokyo
Koko gave a speech at Sophia University
2019 Sophia Symposium: Peace Denuclearization and the future of our society: a Religious – Academic dialogue
Koko’s Activities Worldwide
August 8, 2020 / Obama Foundation : Asia Pacific (via Zoom)
Speaker for the Obama Foundation Leaders : Asia Pacific
August 6, 2020 / Hiroshima Peace Memorial joint event
Los Angeles Japanese American National Museum
Honolulu Battleship Missouri Memorial
NHK World
July 16, 2020 / USA, Japan, Australia (via Zoom)
Gem Romuld for 90 minutes, Koko for 15 minutes
Tina Cordova (Survivor of the Trinity Nuclear test “down-winder”)
Karina Lester (Indigenous Australian from South Australia, Second-generation Survivor of nuclear testing)
MC: Robert Tickner
June 28, 2020 / Los Angeles (via Zoom)
Children As The Peacemakers Foundation → Peace to the Planet Foundation
From August 22 to August 29, 2019 / Singapore
Koko gave speeches at the Singapore American School.
June 23, 2019 / California
Koko was supposed to give a speech for the inauguration of a Peace Museum in Los Angeles. Koko used to be part of Children as Peacemakers and Pat Montandon asked Koko to come to inaugurate her Peace Museum. But the inauguration
was postponed.
