Kenji Shiga

Director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial MuseumJapan

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Kenji Shiga was the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum from 2013-2019. As director, Shiga greets foreign dignitaries visiting Hiroshima, including then-United States President Barack Obama in 2016.

Shiga visits other museums devoted to memory in Europe and North America to discuss how the past is taught internationally.

Watch Mr. Shiga’s interview on “Voices of Japan.”

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