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Day 46 - Magical Miyajima
... it's just amazing. Indeed, the gods willing, we will be going back one day soon, and when we do I am going to do exactly that whilst my lady gets pampered in the town or summit like that. It's difficult to explain how incredibly beautiful and serene Daisho-in Temple is, and you have to go if you are even remotely into that sort of thing. The best energies on the planet clearly align at that temple, you can almost see it in the air. There is a very good reason Miyajima is ...
Shrine at Miyajima and Peace Park
... In the museum there were real objects from the bombings and even fingernails that were mutated from the attack. One man even started to grow blood vessels in his nails! The bomb was the first ever Atomic attack and the full impact on humans is still unknown today. One famous story from this day is of Sakara who unfortunately received cancer as a result. Her mission while spending 8 months in hospital was ...
A History Lesson
... sight to see the shell of this building still standing. Nowadays the building is conserved as a symbol and sits close the Peace Memorial Park that houses monuments and the museum which was fascinating (and a great relief from the heat!) Accompanied by my mother's commentary of her previous visit here when she was in High School; we wandered through the information and science (added since my mothers first visit) and ...
Time for some southern hospitality
... our dinner for that night back in the states because we knew we'd be hungry and didn't want to search around. She discovered that both Osaka and Hiroshima are best known for Okonomiyaki. This is sort of a layered "pancake" that, at least in Hiroshima, contains batter, cabbage, pork (bacon) and then a host of other ingredients you can choose like squid, oysters, etc. We both made the same simple choice and only ...
Oppenheimer's deadly toy
... for example reading a secret note to the US president saying that the A-bomb should definitely be dropped and connected with the end of the war, and that the Japanese shouldn't be warned in advance, since that might as well make them surrender too early. And then somebody could want to examine how a project that ate 2 billion bucks over the years ended up a failure. It's slightly sad to be reminded in a place like this ...
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