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2. The authors presented for public groups, including an exhibition at the Kochi Civil Rights
Memorial Museum and classes at the Kochi Takasaka Gakuen Lifelong University.
3. The authors conducted a variety of overseas initiatives. These included an exchange with a DKG
group in New York City and teaching at a public elementary school in Brooklyn in October
2015; presentations at the 2016 DKG International Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and the
2018 International Convention in Austin, Texas; presentation at the 2017 Southwest Regional
Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii; and a series of special presentations in schools and other
organizations in Hawaii.

The New Peace Education Project
Starting in 2020, as a new type of coronavirus began to rage, “Emily, the Blue-eyed Doll Ambassador”
peace education project was forced to suspend its activities due to difficulties in continuing its special class
on demand. At the same time, a generational shift in the teaching staff brought an increase of younger
faculty members. The result was that the number of teachers and staff who knew the story of “Emily,
the Blue-eyed Doll” at Sakihama Elementary School decreased. Nevertheless, the authors believed it
was important to continue to tell the children of Kochi Prefecture about “Emily, the Blue-eyed Doll
Ambassador” in the future. Furthermore, in view of the current world situation, the authors believed that
this story must be widely disseminated to the teaching staff, passed on to the children in the classroom,
and continued. They would also like to tell this story to as many people in Japan and around the world
as possible through the use of social networking services. Accordingly, the authors developed a vision,
objectives, and activities as follows:
Vision:
Through the picture-story show “Emily, the Blue-eyed Doll Ambassador,”
we convey the importance of peace to children around the world. We will
disseminate information in Japanese and English.We will create educational
materials (YouTube videos and a picture book) that can be used by many
people as peace education materials. To have the students utilize them for
classes, training is also important.
Objectives:
• Develop YouTube video of a picture-card story show of “Emily, the Blue-
eyed Doll” (Japanese and English); Although in Japanese,
• Publish a picture book: “Emily, the Blue-eyed Doll” is useful as a teaching this YouTube video
tool for peace education. nevertheless provides
Activities: images of interest and
• Create and disseminate YouTube videos. an overview of the
A storyboard for the YouTube video was completed by the end of Kamishibai itself. An
December 2021. This YouTube video introduces DKG JSO and its English version is in
activities. In January 2022, a YouTube video (in Japanese) of a picture-card the planning.
story show of “Emily, the Blue-eyed Doll” was created and disseminated
with the permission of the author of the Kamishibai. The YouTube video was narrated by project
member Reiko Sumi, who also sang the nursery rhyme “Blue-eyed Doll.” Kanon Sumi, also a
project member, was in charge of reading the picture-card story show.
The authors also trained together on period research and completed a better “Emily, the Blue-
eyed Doll” picture-card story manuscript. A YouTube video was created with the new structure and
released in October 2022. We will also present an English version of “Emily, the Blue-eyed Doll”
next year.
• Storage of “Emily, the Blue-eyed Doll”

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