60th Anniversary Of The Hiroshima Bombing 1 

August 6, 2005   Photography, Shocking.


The Atomic Bomb Dome - the symbol of peace.

 

 

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The Atomic Bomb Dome used to be Hiroshima Prefecture Industrial Promotion Hall, and stood about 200m north-northwest from the hypocenter (closest point on the ground). It is one of very few structures that were not levelled totally in the central area, and is kept as a monument.


The peacebell.

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The Peace Bell, one of the memorials in the park. This also illustrates that when you go to a historical site in Japan on a weekday you may avoid most other tourists - but you’ll be knee-deep in schoolchildren all wearing identical hats or uniforms.

NOTE: Pictures taken from (and copyrighted by) Lucs.lu.se.

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    mibsays:
    Posted August 6, 2005 at 4:04 am |Permalink

    you know what i’m going to say right? so i’ll spare you the rhetoric.

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