Follow-up survey of understanding and conveying hibakusha testimony in English:An analysis of interpretation and changes of information

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This study focused on American university students who listened to hibakusha testimony in English in a peace study program in Hiroshima. It investigated how they understood and conveyed what they heard from hibakusha by two follow-up surveys, a questionnaire and a transmission conversation, after going back to their country. Questionnaires show their overall understanding by their concise answers. Transmission conversations, on the other hand, show that topics which were mentioned in the conversations vary according to students'interests and amount of information about A-bomb, and not only a decrease but also an increase of information in those topics were found.