Who is Fumiko Green?
Fumiko Green听is a creator advancing a culture of peace through intergenerational arts, cross-cultural dialogue, and governed cultural collaboration across Japan, the United States, and global partners.
For over three decades, she has built bridges between communities, educational institutions, civic organizations, and international networks. Her work integrates hands-on artistic engagement, historical memory, and cultural diplomacy to strengthen human security from the individual to the planetary level.
She is a long-standing leader in the听听(est. 1995), engaging children globally in collaborative mural creation inspired by Picasso鈥檚听Guernica, fostering early peace literacy and community resilience. She also coordinates the听Dual Peace Violin Tours, featuring the Hiroshima Hibaku Violin and Violins of Hope, using music as a gateway to historical consciousness and reconciliation across cultures.
Her initiatives extend to kimono cultural preservation, youth STEM engagement (including nuclear workforce education), architectural sustainability internships, and AI-assisted cultural knowledge transfer鈥攁ligning with the Age of Culture (TAOC) and Horizon鈥檚 governance vision of culture as infrastructure.
Through collaboration with Rotary International, universities, cultural schools, and civic partners across Kakogawa, Bethlehem, Fujinomiya, Pittsburgh, and beyond, she strengthens East鈥揥est exchange and youth leadership.
Her work embodies the principle: culture as a living system that connects individuals, communities, and nations toward planetary peace.
Culture of Peace in action
The Hiroshima Hibaku Violin & A Holocaust Violin. The purpose of the project is to hold a concert tour across the world in 2026 using a violin that was exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and a violin that survived Auschwitz. Concept of the artwork: “A Prayer for Peace” played by two violins. This concert aims to pass on the memory of war and promote the importance of peace through two violins that symbolize the tragedy of World War II.
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