April, 2018
The second Kids' Guernica peace painting
was created at Manila Japanese School
attached to the Embassy of Japan in Philippine. The sixth grade
students visited Baguio City in the northern Luzon island. Many Japanese people
were living in this city before World War II. During the war time, some of
them had to live very hard hiding they were Japanese. Many of those descendants
are still living in this city. The students had an exchange program with those
people in Abong and performed their original drama based on Sister Kaino's
story. Through this excursion, they learned that they should not repeat the
tragedy of war. They thought what they could do for peace and decided to create
a Kids' Guernica peace paiting like last year. Each of the sixth grade students
made his/her own peace painting and they discussed the suitable painting for a
big canvas. After voting, Koharu Tanaka's "Friends Forever" and Miyu
Kodama's "Love and Peace" were selected as a main design of the big
canvas. Finally, the painting filled with all the sixth grade
students' wishes for peace was displayed at the entrance of their school. It conveyed their
message of peace to visiting children and parents.
