Posted on February 18th, 2022 by Prabakaran Jayaraman
![Ian Keiko Yurika Izumi](https://liberalarts.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/japanese/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2022/02/Ian-Keiko-Yurika-Izumi-1-900x600.jpg)
Izumi, Ian, Yurika, Keiko
Nestled on a small patch of ground in Taylor Courtyard at IUPUI, close to Democracy Plaza, stands a little ginkgo sapling that holds a message of peace and legacy.
On April 16, students and faculty of the Japanese Studies Program in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI were joined by a select group of invited guests to plant the sapling, which was grown from the seeds of a 300-year-old tree that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.