Empathy Across Oceans: Duke Students Channel WWII History in Japan

“I was promised cherry blossoms if I came to Tokyo,” joked Professor Peter Feaver on a chilly March Friday to a room full of alumni and two dozen traveling Duke students who had just spent a week in Japan filled with immersive learning. The students returned to Duke before the flowers bloomed, but their mission was focused on the searing experience of the Pacific Theater in World War II.