Sunroute Hiroshima

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Through Tomoko I asked him what the building meant to him.

"Never again," he said.

WOW!

It was quite emotional, as you can imagine.

I told him I hoped for peace, and he said, "You good man."

I said, "Doumo arigatou gozaimasu," ("Thank you very much.") and bowed a deep and long respectful bow.

Not sure what he might say, but unable to resist the opportunity, I asked if I could get a picture of the two ...

... snapping photos

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HISTORY IS MADE:

8:15 am, August 6, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan... The awesome destructive force of the "ATOM BOMB" was without warning unleashed by one group of humans on another for the first time... Tens of thousands of men, women, and children perished instantly!

"The Dome" is (perhaps) the sole remaining structure preserved from that event. It stands as a testament to history, and as a reminder: "Never again!"

Detonated over one-third ...

... seemed to be speaking up for an identity for the city as a place of life beyond tragedy. Maybe this is why the Hiroshima Carp baseball team is so celebrated, and why their first stadium was built a block from the A-Bomb dome. Meanwhile, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki announced their intention to jointly apply to be an Olympics site, and for the completion of nuclear disarmament to occur to coincide with the ...

... good time to mention the deer on the island, a present from the region of Nara these deer have found their place quite nicely in the tourist streets, eating any stray paper or food that might come close and using nearby shops as shelter during the rain. Whatever you do though, don't feed them! I saw one man offer some food to a deer in passing and soon he had the whole herd surrounding him and shoving their noses in his pockets in search of more grub!

Met with ...

... there is magazines all round town that show “Lady's” bars and “Guy's” bars. Basically hostess bars for guys and girls. For some reason I picked up this magazine and put it in my back pocket. We somehow bumped into Biff at a bar trying to pick up a couple of pretty local girls using magic tricks. We heard him say he was 18... When the girls walked away we were
concerned he was after our magazine which had ...

... ships. All forms of vessels were alive and active in the area, from fishing boats to cargo ships. Of course the Tahitian Princess was one of the vessels that were moving thru the area; we were heading to port and a day on shore. As the ship, moved thru the harbor, we could see that the dark rain clouds of Osaka were gone. It was a cool spring morning with overcast clouds; but no threatening dark clouds that would bring down a cold and steady rain like we had experience ...

... was sick, it had a crazy looking guy with ¥10000 notes on the cover. I think it was some kind of Japanese grindhouse with greed, gore, rape, and so on. So we made it to Hiroshima, it took ages to actually get to the station. The whole time dad was arguing that it would be easier and cheaper to take a taxi then the tram, and that we had probably missed our stop. So when we got to our station, we caught a taxi. After all the signing in was done, we dropped off ...

... you fold over 1000 paper cranes, your wish will be granted. She folded over 1000 before dying at age 12. Since then the paper cranes have become symbols of peace and have been donated by school children and other from all aroudn the world arriving in the shape of peace signs, of Japanese characters, of the earth and many other beautiful images. The Hiroshima museum was amazing in its tribute to those who lost their lives, in ...

... died. Its epicentre was south of Lima, in a place called Pisco on the coast. Lima is only 7 hours away by coach from Huancayo where my godson, students and Peruvian family and friends live. He has told me that he's ok, thank goodness! Other travellers, I hope you have enjoyed by blog! I aim to complete it before I land in the UK! Please feel free to contact me, if I can help you with anything or if you have any questions. Emma :)

... country with the Bomb to please write to your representative and ask that he or she, pressure your government into giving up nuclear weapons. Find your MP/Representative by following the relevant link below: United Kingdom: http://www.locata.co.uk/commons/ - MP's http://www.parliament.uk/directories/di rectories.cfm - Lords United States: http://www.house.gov/writerep/ - Congressman http://www.senate.gov/ - Senator Sorry I have no links, of friends from, France, China, India or Pakistan