Kazuo’s Bento box
Presentation summary report
Report Outline:
I- Introduction
II- Team members
III- The gameIV- Exhibition
V- Conclusion
I- Introduction:
Albert Einstein said: 'Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved byunderstanding.', however, an absence of war, based on force and military threat can’t
be considered to be peace. While there are differences between people all around theworld, we really are similar on so many levels. We all want a comfortable peaceful life,and we are all in this together. Why does it have to take a massive disaster to realize thatthese borders between countries mean nothing, and that wars can only bring sadness
and suffering to mankind.
The main theme of our group’s project is “atomic bombs”, which had been dropped by theUS on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 1945,
respectively, during the final stage of World War II. The two bombings, which killed atleast 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.
The main tool used in our presentation is a distorted Japanese lunch box of the victims inHiroshima atomic bomb.
II- Team members:
1- Nurul Aulia (Ritsumeikan University)
2- Heba ABBADI (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
3- Leona Vaughn (University of Liverpool)
4- Seyung Kim (Kyoto University)
III- The gameThe game, which is a simple tossing game, is a white-clay
map of the city of Nagasaki. It was meant to cover all thelandmarks of the city, so that players don’t know what are
their targets.
The main objective of playing the game is for children tounderstand the feelings of the bomber. For them it is only
a game, just like it is only a target for the bomber. Boothshould understand that any action or decision you makehas a consequence. It doesn’t only affect your life, butothers’ too.
IV- Exhibition:
In the exhibition, we aim to deliver a story about the tremendous impacts of the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by showing a lunch box.

This lunch box was discovered at the site of theHiroshima Technical High School, which is locatednear to the Ground Zero of Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Due to there are no information about the identity ofthis lunch box besides it was one of the student fromthe Hiroshima Technical High School, we decide toname the owner of this lunch box as ‘Kazuo’.
Photo Source: Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University

The word ‘Kazuo’ means “child of harmony and peace”. To
attract the young age visitors to learn and understand about
the danger and negative impacts of nuclear bomb, we create
this exhibition as a story line. In the exhibition, we make into
three sections. The first is about ‘what happened to Kazuo?’
In this section, we give information about what was happedwhen the atomic bombs hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki and theimmediate effects of the atomic bombs towards those cities.
The second is ‘what happened to Kazuo’s friends and family?’This section explains about the effects of atomic bombs forcivilians, as many civilians instantly dead or died within few
months after the atomic bombs. For people who survived
from this tragedy, they suffer from physic and mental healthissues. And the last section is ‘what can I do?’ We give some
information about grass-root movements and international
efforts on ban the nuclear weapons. Besides, we also ask thevisitors to write down their own possible action(s) to create a peaceful world without
nuclear weapons.
V- Conclusion:
By playing the game, and then visiting the exhibition, we want the visitors to gain
knowledge about the danger of atomic bomb, the consequences of the war, and to beable to think and to take action on creating a peaceful world.