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A HOUSEKEEPING NOTE

I arrived in Hiroshima this afternoon. When I got to the Comfort Hotel, they were VACUUMING THE DRIVEWAY!!! I was so amazed. In case you haven't performed this particular act of housekeeping before, it's done with a canister vacuum, not an upright.

JAPANESE HOUSE MAKEOVER

Saw a Japanese house makeover show on TV last night, mostly focused on seismic upgrading and storage solutions ...

... bomb dome- once an exhibition hall, it's metal dome frame was seriously disfigured along with the rest of the building and has been left like this in order to remind people. The museum also is a reminder of what happened here with documents and artefacts documenting the decision-making process that occured on both sides to lead to this even that wiped out so many lives. Well balanced historically, it was still tough to listen to so many personal and tragic stories with ...

... is generally in one area of streets and there is so many places on so many different floors its overwhelming. There is even a spot listed on the maps here that says “A bit of a dodgy area” (Red Light district). The first night (a Monday night) was spent going to many an empty bar and was somewhat uneventful. Although strangely the streets are full of young people going somewhere and hundreds of taxis going slowly in ...

... run with deer, they are everywhere, quite tame but we were told not to eat anything on the street for fear of a stampede. We spent the afternoon wondering around the island lots of shops and cafes and the world's largest spatula! Off to the pub again for the evening. Our trip to Hiroshima was over all too soon, great city would have loved to have stayed longer but back to Tokyo on Thursday for our last day. Lisa and Paul

... She died a short time later, but the legacy of the paper crane continues. Peace park houses millions of paper cranes, many of which are under shelters. They are sent here from all over the world. This is what makes Hiroshima a positive experience, the message of peace that exists all over the city. Tomorrow we head to Kyoto to spend some time with neighbors from Saskatoon, Izumi, Nobu, and Alice. We have 5 days with them and then go to Beijing. Sandy

... dome, literally a bombed out skeleton of a once modern building. It was close to the center of the blast and thus survived to some degree, the searing heet that emanated from the blast. Hundreds of children lost their lives or were orphaned in the blast. Many children were not in school but helping to dismantle certain buildings in Hiroshima to protect the city from catching on fire should there be potential air raids from ...

... s orphanage at Christmas. More importantly, try and raise awareness about El Rosario Orphange, and get every child there a godparent. I think that its easy to think logically about the material things children need, but what about the emotional support that I hope most people reading this have had the benefit of, growing up? And still have now, from our families and godparents? Wouldn't you like to be someone a parentless ...

... bomb. Unlike the Germans, the Japanese still haven't faced up to what happened during the war, so much so that my generation in Japan, know little about the war. The fact that they call it "The Pacific War", shows their ignorance of what was happening in the world at large. However, regardless of who's opinion was portrayed one thing that could be distorted was the sheer destruction caused by the A-Bomb. Pictures of survivors, their skin dripping off their bones, resembling ...