<p>Mr. Takata attended an event at the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden in Pasadena, California.  The Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden is a private garden which has a beautiful Japanese teahouse, lake, and trees in the old part of Pasadena.   It occassionally hosts events.  The event was for the Hiroshima Green which planted a new tree in memory of the Hiroshima bomb dropped during WWII.  Mr. Takata met Jiro Kawatsumi who was a survivor of the A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima during WWII.  He is now 88 years old and he was about 18 years old when the bomb struck.  Mr. Kawatsumi gave a speech to the attendees.  Mr. Kawatsumi is the person on the left in the photo below. There was also beautiful koto music.</p>
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