Hawaii Tribune-Herald Ghosts of Hiroshima’ UH-Hilo production explores tragedy, ‘human costs of war’ By KATIE YOUNG YAMANAKA Special to the Tribune-Herald As Jackie Pualani Johnson sets the stage for her final year as a University of Hawaii at Hilo drama professor, she has one thought top of mind: “I wanted the last productions in my last year at UH-Hilo to be meaningful,” Johnson says. In a series of events that were kismet, she decided that “Ghosts of Hiroshima,” a 1983 drama written by two women in Ohio, would be this year’s fall production. Words of survivors of the Word War II bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki form the core of “Ghosts of Hiroshima,” written by Deborah Lubar and Diana Roose 40 years after the horrific events. The production toured in the ’80s, thanks to funding from the Ohio Humanities Council, but has not seen the stage since. Johnson invited one of the play’s writers to See GHOSTS Page 9 Lei Kaniumoe Shinoda and Chad Nakagawa of Taishoji Taiko rehearse for “Ghosts of Hiroshima.”
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