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No More Nukes!!
... going to sleep in one town and waking up fresh and ready to explore (most of the time) in another. However it is one more thing to add to the 'done list'.
So we arrived in Hiroshima and had only given ourselves a day and a half here as the Peace Museum and Memorials were all we knew there was to see. On our arrival I saw a sign advertising ‘Hiroshima Dreamination’. Seemingly the Japanese love Christmas and they also ...
Arrival Hiroshima, HighSpeed Trains, Trams, Castle
... This is a recreation after the original was destroyed in the atomic blast. I decided not to go in as I was short on time and visiting the much nicer Kumamoto which is larger and older the next day. ...
First City Destroyed
... land grab they had done in Eastern Europe). The history classes Deb P slept through would have also highlighted the Allied concerns around the enormous casualty counts they faced if they tried to invade the main islands of Japan to force an unconditional surrender.
That said, the loss of life and human suffering triggered by the atomic blast as detailed in the museum, was absolutely numbing (the atomic bombing of Nagasaki took place just 3 days later on ...
Japan is te gek!
... want naast ons kregen ze een sushi voorgeschoteld waar de garnaal nog stuiptrekkend op een bolletje rijst lag!
De dag erna hebben we het Osaka kasteel bezocht. Dit is een van de mooiste kastelen van Japan, ziet er heel bijzonder uit. Ook meteen wat historie over Osaka te weten gekomen in het historisch museum en het peace museum
Vanmorgen zijn we met shinkansen (bullet train) vertrokken naar Hiroshima. In ruim anderhalf uur hebben we ...
Hiroshima - taking back ground zero
... explosion who believed themselves dead, in hell, or at least at the end of the world.
Hiroshima keeps losing out to context though. The death count was not as high as the bombing campaign of Tokyo; the bomb, by today's standards, was not that big, and the mushroom cloud tends to be associated with events yet to happen, or big screen morbid fantasy, rather than an actual historical event. Even the term ground zero has been taken to mean something else.
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