![]() ![]() And they visited both Hiroshima and the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor to commemorate the fallen. HUNTER: In 2016, there was a commemoration with the then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and former US President Obama. KUNM: Had any survivors of both Pearl Harbor and the atomic bombs in Japan ever formally come together before this? And the reason that I did it is because I wanted to know how far had healing happened, you know we’re 75, 80 years from World War II, and I wanted to see how we forgiven each other. Hunter, the director of the film,“Sakura & Pearls: Healing From World War II,” says the title refers to cherry blossoms, or sakura, which represent the rebirth of Hiroshima, and the pearls represent the pearls of wisdom of Pearl Harbor. It brings together atomic bomb survivors from Japan with those who lived through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. PBS will premiere a new documentary Thursday, October 28 at 7 p.m. Stream PBS Sakura & Pearls: Healing from WWII
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