On August 13, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum invited Tomoyoshi Urushibara, an author of children’s literature and educational commentator, to a special two-part seminar that included a reading of one his works. In the first part, Mr. Urushibara shared his childhood experience of World War II, when his family lost their home in an Allied bombing raid in 1945 and how that served to harden his resolve to work for peace in the years that followed. In the second part, he read from his newly published work, Akarichan no tsugakuro (tentatively translated as “Akari’s school commute”).
