Seeds from Hiroshima ‘survivor trees’ growing at Keele University

Seeds from Hiroshima ‘survivor trees’ growing at Keele University

The seeds are collected from an oriental plane tree, destroyed by the bombing, and a ginkgo tree.

Love Song from Hiroshima (惑星ラブソング, Hideyuki Tokigawa, 2024)

Just because we are far apart, it doesn’t mean we aren’t important to each other, according to an interplanetary messenger hoping to avoid the Earth’s apparently imminent destruction in Hideyuki Tokigawa’s gentle ode for world peace, Love Song From Hiroshima (惑星ラブソング, Wakusei Love Song). Twenty-something Mocchi (Ryosuke Sota) says he’s sick of hearing about the legacy of the atomic bomb, but is himself stuck in the past just as the city is froze…