josh fetzer is a college student studying art.wanted to know how the decision by his grandparent's generation affected people in japan. >> i'm a little nervous but very excited. i'm excited about what i'm going to learn about excited to hear the perspectives. i think from the sessions today i really expect to be challenged in what i learned previously, both about japan and about world war ii. >> reporter: the group also listened to an atomic bomb survivor. koko kondo spoke about when she met a crew member from the u.s. war plane who dropped the bomb. >> i learned that when the war started, not only the one country, both countries were hurt. and i could not speak english. but the only thing i could say is i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i don't know anything about you. but until this moment, i hated you. please forgive me. >> fetzer was surprised to learn that japanese students and even survivors don'tlame americans for the bombings. rather, they blame war itself. >> there's really a necessary need for a sense of forgiveness and how lessons