伝承者 (Denshosha): individuals who learn the stories and experiences of a person who survived the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, designated, after their passing, to continue to share the memories of the survivor.

This is fascinating, and a model that we could adopt here in the United States. As capitalism and technology across generations has effectively dismantled millennia old frameworks of telling the stories of our family and communities, could models such as this begin to re-graft bonds, and help restore fractured empathy, in the face of an increasingly nameless, and history-less, other? How might we begin to see one another differently were it to become common to listen to, and speak, the stories of how we got to where we are at now, well beyond the memories of our own lived experiences?