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THE NEW YORKERSGood Luckon Your Journey
DAN McDONALD
Over theyears, manyJapanese
friends and colleagues haveshared storiesof caring for
loved ones backhome as theyage.
Long,extended trips
back to Japan, visits to unfamiliar nursing homes and hospitals and saying
goodbye when they pass. Some havefelt guilty for living so far away andunprepared for the challenge of caring
for a parent or other relative.
The phone call came inFebruary. My father was in the hospitaland was diagnosed with dementia. Hecould no longer care for himself.
Although he doesn’t live in anothercountry, the long out of state drives tovisit him have provided time to reflect.
Feelings of guilt for living so far away
and not seeing him every day.
Exploring the paths our lives took, withme moving to Japan and my father
moving back to his hometown in
Massachusetts.
It seems nothing can prepare
us for the moment when we become theparent. It is overwhelming. Finances tosort out, possessions to pack up.
Dreading the day when your loved one
no longer recognizes you. Seeing a parent who has declined to the point you
barely recognize them. If we are lucky,
we get to share a little more time withthem, whether it be holding hands andwatching tv together or showing thempictures of their grandchildren. Going
home and packing up their belongings
sometimes enables us to reconnect with
our own past and find answers to questions. I now have the chance to help
care for the man who raised me, and forthat I feel in a sense fortunate.
(Dan is a newspaper columnist, editor
and Japanese translator. Interested
readers can contact him atdan9605@hotmail.com)

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people to be proud of. Therefore, I
would be grateful if this small sum ofmoney I have with me would be utilized in passing this bell onto the next
generation.”
Under-Secretary-General
Beagle responded, “Today is such a
lovely day as Ambassador Kawamura

https://www.yomiuri-info.jp/daily_yomiuri/nys/Japanese Ambassador Donates to U.N.
Peace Bell That Rings Sound of Peacefor International Community
On June 17, Ambassador
Yasuhisa Kawamura, Permanent
Mission of Japan to the United Nations,visited Ms.Jan Beagle, the UnderSecretary-General, and handed over his
donation for the United Nations Peace
Bell Fund.
Ambassador Kawamura said,“I had an opportunity to give a lecture
on U.N. activities to the local Japaneseaudiences in May. I promised that I
would donate to the U.N. Fund to maintain the peace bell. I am here today withthe check and would like you to accept
it. The peace bell, cast of coins from allover the world, was dedicated to theU.N. headquarters in 1954 by the late
Chiyoji Nakagawa before Japan joined
the United Nations. It has now comeinto a yearly tradition that the Secretary-General rings the bell on September 21,
the International Day of Peace. The bell
is a symbolic connection between Japanand the United Nations in the common pursuit of peace, and it is an
important U.N. asset for all Japanese

has come to donate to the U.N. It is awell-known tradition that theSecretary-General rings the peace belleach year. This is a precious asset toecho the sound of peace throughout
the international community. We will
immediately deposit the check into thefund and use it carefully. I would liketo express my deepest gratitude.”Ambassador Kawamura had given
a lecture at the spring luncheon hosted
by Friends of Rinri New York (CEOEmiko Akutagawa Lindsay) On May
16. (Ryoichi Miura/Translated byHiroko Makabe)

Ambassador Kawamura, DPR,Permanent Mission of Japan to the United
Nations (left), visited Ms. Beagle, the Under-Secretary-General, andhanded his donation for the United Nations Peace Bell Fund. (June 17)

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