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		<title>&#8220;From Hiroshima to 9/11, a girl&#8217;s origami lives on&#8221; &#8211; CNN</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN

By Wayne Drash, CNN

This holiday season, CNN highlights inspiring acts of kindness and generosity in a special series called "Giving in Focus: The 12 Days of Goodness."

(CNN) -- When Sadako Sasaki lay in her hospital bed sick with leukemia, she showed her father origami cranes from local school girls. "When you fold 1,000 paper cranes, you will get well," her dad responded.

Sadako was just 12. Hoping to get better, she began folding tiny origami cranes, using paper from get-well gifts and wrappers from medicine. She had survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Yet 10 years later, her fragile body suffered the effects of exposure to radiation...]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Boat &#8211; Hibakusha Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10/23/2008
New York
Three Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings), Mr. Yoshida, Mr. Morita, and Ms. Nakamura visited New York and appealed for abolishing nuclear weapons at United Nations on October 27th.
On October 23rd, Nagasaki Batten Kai and Hiroshima Kai held a welcome party for them and KFTF Chairman, Todd Yamamoto joined the party.
Yamamoto and Hibakusha agreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kumiko Yokoi Peace Tour in New York</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 3rd &#8211; 5th,
Kumiko Yokoi (Singer and Songwriter) visited New York and had mini peace concerts in The New York Buddhist Church on August 3rd. 
On Tuesday, August 5th, in The Japanese American Association of New York, Kids for the Future organized small symposium with Kumiko Yokoi and Kunio Iizuka, an acclaimed Japanese artist. KFTF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Spring Festival (Haru-Matsuri) in UNIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kids for the Future (&#8221;KFTF&#8221;) was a participant in NECTJ&#8217;s (The Northeast Council of Teachers of Japanese) annual Japanese Spring Festival, called &#8220;Haru Matsuri,&#8221; which is principally held at the United Nations International School.  In this year, we demonstrated how to fold peace cranes, and explained the meanings of one-thousand-folded cranes to the students. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Generation &amp; Nagasaki – Angelus Bell Screening at the Nippon Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 11, 2008
New York
At the Nippon Club, a lecture by KFTF Chairman Todd Yamamoto and a trailer of the film Angelus Bell preceded a screening of the10 Feet Films&#8217; The Lost Generation.
Chairman Todd Yamamoto stressed the necessity of upholding the ideals of peace and cooperation within one&#8217;s own community to executive-level participants from various fields, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nagasaki – Angelus Bell Screening at the UN Headquarters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 25, 2007
KFTF and Mushi Productions, together with the United Nations Japanese Union Representatives and the United Nations Weapons Disarmament NGO, with the support of Japan Foundation New York, held a screening of Nagasaki – Angelus Bell at the United Nations Headquarters. 
Despite disappointing weather, the auditorium was filled with UN members and local students, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message from CEO of Mushi Production, Satoshi Ito for Angelus Bell Screening at UN</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First and foremost, we would like to extend our gratitude to those organizations who were instrumental in bringing the screening of Nagasaki Angeles Bells to this past United Nations Summit. We deeply appreciate the contribution from the members of the government of Japan, the United Nations, the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace, and Security, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message from Director, Seiji Arihara for Angelus Bell Screening at UN</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome, and thank you for your attendance.
Animation is art form which breathes life into drawings and toys, and is a particularly appealing form of media for children. Sadly, this influence over the youth was once used to their detriment.
Animated films during the World War II era, as illustrated by films such as Momotaro’s Eagle (1943), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nagasaki – Angelus Bell Screening at the St. Luke’s School</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 14, 2007
New York
Thanks in large part to the efforts of KFTF peace advocate Mutsuko Suzuki, a screening of the film Nagasaki &#8211; Angelus Bell was held for the children at the St. Luke’s School. Prior to the screening, Kim Allen, a teacher at the school, gave a basic background speech on the atomic bomb [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Collaborative Event Between “Nagasaki Batten Kai” and “Hiroshima Kenjinkai”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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