The Students









The Classes

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In June, 2002, nine students from the Graduate School of Journalism
at the University of California, Berkeley, traveled to Nagasaki,
Japan to report on how that city has remade itself nearly 57 years
after the world's second – and last – atomic bomb was
dropped. Their print stories appeared in an August, 2002 special
section of the San Jose Mercury News; their digital TV
stories appeared on the Washington Post website, washingtonpost.com.
All stories have been reproduced
here.
Click the highlighted
text within a story description to read the full story.
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society

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In her washingtonpost.com video, Rosa Yum spends time with
Nobukazu and Kazuko Okabe, a middle-aged
couple torn between wanting the most for their children and desiring
to have them at home.
Austin Ramzy writes in the San Jose Mercury
News about the struggle for students between kindergartens
and day care centers.
And Jessi Hempel's San Jose Mercury News
story looks at the increasing number of students
refusing to go to school out of boredom, pressure to conform
or fear of teachers and students. |
work
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Steven Fyffe's washingtonpost.com video looks at the hardships
Japanese
fishermen face now that the Isahaya Dam has drastically reduced
fish stocks.
Carole-Anne Elliott's main San Jose Mercury
News story explores the effects of a decade of recession on
older workers.
Her sidebar introduces an older worker who switched gears in time
to find new work as a "home
helper."
And Jessi Hempel's San Jose Mercury News
piece follows an environmental
activist who fights to continue the work of her late husband. |
culture
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Kimberlee Bortfeld writes in the San Jose Mercury News
about the Nagasaki Hata Club's efforts to introduce the art of kite
flying to younger generations.
Bruce Gerstman's San Jose Mercury News
story looks at the Suwa
Shrine, where Japanese go to ask for blessings on their cars
and even ways to end their love affairs.
And Austin Ramzy's San Jose Mercury News
story takes us back in time to Nagasaki's Dejima
island, now being reconstructed as a tourist attraction. |
survival
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Chris O'Connell's washingtonpost.com
video explores how the World War II atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki still affects survivors, nearly
57 years later. |
This
site was created by Carole-Anne Elliott, who received her master's degree
from the Graduate School of Journalism in May, 2003.
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