VJ day commemoration plans
- Title
- VJ day commemoration plans
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 28 Jun 1995
- Year of production
- 1995
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- Duration
- 00:06:41
- Description
- Paul Chapman reports on plans for the commemoration of 50 years since VJ day at Westminster Cathedral. Speaking are Arthur Titherington, former Japanese POW, on inability to forgive; Japanese nuclear bomb survivors on a tour of Britain organised by the CND - Sakoo Shimohira, sole survivor of her family and Masao Morihara, who was sent into Hiroshima as a rescue worker; Janet Bloomfield, Chairwoman of the CND, on need for reconciliation.
- Contributors
- Paul Chapman; Janet Bloomfield; Arthur Titherington; Sakoo Shimohira; Masao Morihara
- Keywords
- Anniversary celebrations; Second World War (1939-1945); CND; Japan; Anti-nuclear movements; Nuclear bomb; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Prisoners of War; Radiation injuries; VJ Day; Commemorative events; Veterans; Westminster Cathedral
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