Talk event, Travel to Memories “From the Village of the Yellow River Plateau in China to the Village of Mango in Cambodia.”

I was just so impressed with her way of life, what she has done by herself, so I organized a talk event to introduce what she has done and will do next in Okayama.

She is around 70 years old. She had lived for more than ten years in a mountain village on the Yellow River Plateau, where the yellow surface remains as far as you can see. One of the reasons that kept her at the house called Yao Tong, which locates on the surface of the mountain, was her passion for recording the memories of neighboring older people who had survived the war.

“I still hold a grudge against Japanese”—

In that village, the atrocity took place by the old Japanese army during the Sino-Japanese War, and Mrs. Ohno was the first Japanese for the villager to meet after the war. An angry old lady came and said, “I still hold a grudge against Japanese.” with anger. After she found that Mrs. Ohno was recording alone, she invited Mrs. Ohno to her poor residence and told her many stories. Finally, she sent off Mrs. Ohno with a souvenir. In such a way, she had gathered the voices of hundreds of older people there.

Then the next stage came up to her. She moved to Siem Reap in Cambodia, where Angkor heritages exist, started a new type of travel agency with Cambodian youth.