Ready to leave the WFC for Nagasaki. Sachiko, Naomi, Chiziko, and Meiko gathered at the WFC for the send off.
Soh Horie and Kido Sensei at the Hiroshima Station to send off PAX Team and Directors
Mieko san, Rolando and Mary arrive
Sarah and Mieko san share a moment
Emi says goodbye to Sachiko
Yamashita san and Rolando at the station
Maggie is ready to go to Nagasaki - camera, hat and backpack - no wonder Maggie's back hurts !
Time to go
Riding the Nozomi in comfort
Emi gives Maggie's back and shoulder a well deserved break - what is that horse poster all about in the background ?
Sarah enjoys rail station Bento (boxed lunch)
Emi Dreams while listening to music
Mary makes new friends on the way to Nagasaki
View from the train window on the way to Nagasaki
Nagasaki hosts wecome us!
Sarah asks about one ticket or two or both together to get through automatic ticket exit at Nagasaki. Maggie in the background talking to Mary has just realized that she has left her tickets on the train - she ran and got them just in time.
PAX Team arrives in Nagasaki
Rev. Yasushi Tomonoh welcomes Emi Oda.
Overview of Nagasaki.
Mary Cox talks to Hiroko Takahara san.
Yoshio Sekiguchi san talks with Emi Oda.
Rev. Yasushi Tomonoh talks to some of the group.
View of Nagasaki
Other visitors at the scenic overlook.
Dr. Takahara, Sarah and Emi
Mary and Maggie meet new students.
Rolando takes in the view.
Wow!!
Pastor Tomono visits with PAX Team 2007
Peace to PAX 2007 and to everyone !!
Holiday Inn Nagasaki - we had dinner here the first night in Nagasaki
Viking Style healthy organic dining in Nagasaki
Evening desk clerks in Nagasaki
Our bedroom at the Takahara's
Garden view from the hill above in Nagasaki
Breakfast at the Takahara's
Hiroko Takahara San shows entrance to tea ceremony room. All enter at the same level.
Hiroko Takahara San in tea ceremony room
View of the garden from the tea ceremony room.
Sarah entering the tea ceremony room.
Mrs. Takahara tells us about some of the tea ceremony equipment.
Entrance to the tea ceremony waiting area
Yoshio Sekiguchi San waiting at the school
Peace Seminar at area high school. Students share music.
Attentive audience at Peace seminar at area high school.
Each student group did a presentation on their peace activities during the past year.
Professional musician invited students to join him on stage....
Students on stage with professional musician.
PAX team at Peace Seminar at high school in Nagasaki
Yoshio Sekiguchi San at high school in Nagasaki
Akihiko Suyama, M.D.,Ph.D. gives a tour of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Child at Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Rolando gets his bone density checked at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation open house.
Nagasaki Baptist Church Sanctuary
Rev. Yasushi Tomonoh shows us art that was given to the Nagasaki Baptist Church.
The Nagasaki Baptist Church has a pre-school program held there during the week......art.
Wednesday evening August 8th the church provided supper. Photogenic church members present...
Youth Pastor on the guitar and Naomi Nakamura San on the piano.
Youth Pastor Shinichi Nishiwaki and Naomi Nakamura San make music.
Children's display at Nagasaki Baptist Church
Sarah, Rolando, Sekiguchi san and Takahara san at the Wed. evening church supper.
Church members enjoy singing. Naoko Nonomura san, church deacon on right.
Hey, Peace to you.
Mary and Maggie join in the singing.
host sisters - Tomonoh sisters on the left and Haruka Nakamura on the right
Hang on !
August 8th, Wednesday evening supper provided by the Nagasaki Baptiat Church.
Fun time with youth....
Wed. evening supper at church.
A big thanks to church members staffing the kitchen!
Maggie with translator...
PAX team members share Christian life experiences with help of translator......Emi Oda shares.
August 9th at the memorial service.
Rolando, Mary and Maggie before the August 9th memorial service.
Steve Leeper is introduced to Emi Oda
A warm day....waiting for the service to begin....
Hiroko Takahara san is introduced to Steve Leeper
Birds released during the memorial service in Nagasaki
Youth choir sings during the memorial service.....very moving.
PAX team with Nagasaki friends after the memorial service.
School children - kawaii desu ne? (cute, aren't they ?) Follow teacher's crossing the street instructions.
Hiroshi Suenaga San, on right, took us on a tour of atomic bomb related places in Nagasaki.
Church was rebuilt after the bomb.
Destroyed church tower demonstrates strength of the blast- bell tower blown a great distance from a top of the destroyed Catholic Church. At the time the church was the largest member Christian Church in Asia - of the 12,000 members, 8,500 died in the A-bombing of Nagasaki.
Hiroshi Suenaga san led the tour....thanks to Emi Oda for translating.
Tour continues......
Peace Town
Cranes for Nagasaki Hypo-Center Memorial
Suenaga san gives a very informative tour including aerial photo of Nagasaki before and after the A-bomb. Suenaga san notes that today's A-bombs are at least 1,000 times more powerful that those dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 - cities such as New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C would disappear if they were A-bomb targets (by accident or otherwise).
Atomic bomb sites tour group
Hiroshi Suenaga san talks to reporters.
Maggie Giman and Mary Cox
Paper cranes in Nagasaki
Yoshio Sekiguchi san and Sarah
Wonderful dinner on August 9th at Caffe' Cento Anni, a restaurant owned and operated by Rolando's host family. the Koga family.
Restaurant team ready to serve
A wonderful dinner at the Koga families restaurant, Caffe' Cento Anni
Mariko Koga and one of her daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. Koga
A natural smile for you
Sisters
More than sisters.
Caffe Cento Anni at dusk
Hiroko Takahara san with Sarah
Entrance of the Takahara home where Kent and Sarah stayed.
Time for school
Lunch on August 9th was at the Catholic Center.
Dr. Makoto Takahara shares some photos of his father in a hospital in Nagasaki after the bomb. His father was also a doctor.
Dr. Makoto Takahara and Ms. Hiroko Takahara shared their home with Kent and Sarah.
Nagasaki rooftops and hills
Sarah with the Takahara hosts.
Kent with Dr. and Ms. Takahara in the tea ceremony waiting area in an outside garden
Tea ceremony waiting place in the Takahara's garden
Feeding the fish
Our bedroom at the Takahara home.
Good-bye at the train station. Naomi and Haruka Nakamura and Youth Pastor
The send off in Nagasaki
Yes, it was too short......
All aboard - trains leave exactly on time in Japan
Good-byes at the train station
We love you - thanks for everything
Kisses and waves good-bye
