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 Japan Peace Tour

   
Peace Banner collaboratively created by Japanese and American artists in Toyohashi
    
         

JAPAN PEACE TOUR

Banner Art~Outcries for Peace
Performances~Who's Telling Our Story?
Toyohashi Station International Peace Project
 

To exhibit my Anguished Art: Outcries for Peace paintings and sculptures, or my Outcries for Peace Banner Art, or to have me perform Who's Telling Our Story?, please contact me at jkadircannon@gmail.com
 
         
           
 

Peace Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Exhibition, OUTCRIES FOR PEACE
Performance, WHO'S TELLING OUR STORY?

          
Atomic Bomb Dome
Hiroshima, Japan
  
   
         

My Banner Art, on display at the Peace Museum in Hiroshima, elicited compassions from visitors for civilian and military casualties of war.
I was interviewed and had a lengthy discussion with Mr. Akiro Tashiro, senior staff writer and special project editor of the Chugoku Shimbun Newspaper, Hiroshima. This internationally known reporter and peace activist was interested in understanding American foreign policy as well as my work for peace using art.  
         
       

Several of my gracious hosts at dinner at World Friendship Center in Hiroshima are Hibakushas, Atomic Bomb Survivors, who speak and work tirelessly for nuclear disarmament.
My art led to exchange of ideas about peace issues and cultural identity at the World Friendship Center, Hiroshima. Center members were also interested in my father's work as a Manhattan Project physicist who campaigned for non-military uses of nuclear energy and for nuclear disarmament in the 1950s.
 
             
           
     
   
Artists in Toyohashi collaborated to paint the Peace Banner for display and outdoor performance at the Toyohashi Station International Peace Project.
 

Practicing for a performance with fellow
artist, Mrs. Yuko Innami in Toyohashi, Japan.

  
         
One of my Outcries for Peace banners exhibited high over the city of Toyohashi at the Toyohashi Station International Peace Project.
Innami-san and I enacted a masked performance of GREED and POWER fighting over the world at the Toyohashi Station International Peace Project.
 
       
   
 
Japanese artists were joined by American artists from the Dayton Printmakers Group, who participated in the Peace Performance at the Toyohashi Station International Peace Project.
    
The reporter from Higashiaichi Color News in Toyohashi, was intrigued that an American artist would use art to convey a message of peace to Japan and the world.
 
 
I was a guest lecturer for the American Studies and Media Studies departments at Kyoto-Seika University
and Kansai University, in Kyoto, Japan.
I performed my movie, Who's Telling Our Story?, and led discussions about peace, the media, and the pace and pressures of life in developed nations.
I could have shouldered the burdens of the world and gone home, but there were more connections to make in China. See China Peace Tour pages for more!