No Nuke Network Hiroshima

No Nuke Network Hiroshima is a study group of students from 9 junior high and high schools in Hiroshima. They include students from:

• Hiroshima Jogakuin High School
  
• Notre Dame High School (Hiroshima)
• Motomachi High School
• Hiroshima Students Peace Seminar, a peace education circle comprised of high schools students; and
  
• junior writers for “Peace Seeds,” a children’s newspaper produced by teens in Hiroshima.

According to a report in the Hiroshima Peace Center News (July 1, 2009), the group has launched a campaign to encourage U.S. President Barack Obama to visit Hiroshima. They met with Professor Hiroshi Oshima, a professor of Hiroshima Shudo University to learn more about Mr. Obama and the American view of nuclear weapons. This study session helped the group consider specific actions they could take in their campaign.

The study group is an example of young students practicing "global citizenship" through peace literacy activities.