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Day 45 - Hiroshima, Heart and Soul
... and I can forgive it (not that my forgiveness is or was needed or was ever asked for). It was a different era and different circumstances - and with a direct connection - ie: being in New Guinea in WW11, he had his reasons. He never showed any other prejudice to any other nationality or race so to my way of thinking, this is another futile and unfortunate case of the effects of war on people who were involved..... At least he had reasons for his feelings. So much racial ...
A Somber Day
... typhoon that washed all the radiation out to sea.
In the museum, there are artifacts from the bombing, pictures of people with burns and radiation poisoning, children's tricycles, people's clothing, clocks stopped at 8:15, a dark spot on the wall seeming to be a shadow of where someone once was sitting, and even some of Sadako's cranes (they are SO SMALL, you wouldn't believe it, even Eric wouldn't be able to make them so small!). The museum also had ...
Miyajima
... tops of the mountains. We all made our way off the ferry and headed down the pier to the shrine for a better view of the gate. It wasn't too crowded, even along the shopping arcade that you have to walk down to get to the shrine. Every single shop was selling the exact same things: swords, from cheap plasticky things to expensive metal ones, deer and tanuki statues, filled pancakes, and wooden rice spoons. Yes, rice spoons. ...
En la ciudad que no zafó
... con una consigna común: Hiroshima ciudad de la paz. De todo: a los niños muertos, a los estudiantes voluntarios que trabajaban creando un cerco de fuego al aire libre debajo de la bomba, a las maestras, a los 20.000 coreanos que trabajaban en la ciudad (algunos de forma forzosa).
Dos cosas me impactaron bastante del memorial: la primera fue un montículo donde se habían cremado y enterrado a 10.000 personas que era estremecedor; ...
A-bombs and bombshells
... last bullet on rails, I realised that so much of Japan’s fascinating restrained-intensity is likely a product of geography. I thought back to the experiments I’d learnt about in my science degree, which demonstrated that violent behaviour increases in rats with increased population density and/or reduced resources. In this island nation – where every inch of flat-ish land is put to use and the majority of the population live crammed together ...
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