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Search Menu. Hiroshima City Information Hotline Hours: 8 am to 9 pm year round. Change Viewer Settings Text-to-Speech. The Allied forces dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki three days later. The atomic bomb immediately killed 80, and injured 35, more. By the end of , 60, more people had died as a result of the blast. Today, Hiroshima is a prosperous manufacturing hub with a population of over 1.
The Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall , a multifunctional building created in that was used for research and design consultation, was one of the few buildings left standing after the blast.
The heat from the atomic blast burned lasting shadows onto walls and pavements in the shapes of the objects in its path. The most haunting Hiroshima shadows are the outlines of victims who were going about their daily lives when the bomb was dropped.
Today, some shadows are displayed at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Sites in Hiroshima often draw peace activists. In , Greenpeace members launched inflatable doves in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome on the day before the Hiroshima anniversary.
The routines of daily life in Hiroshima are much like any other large city in Japan. The city has launched a forward-looking planning process called Hiroshima City of Peace and Creativity , with a focus on designing a modern, distinctive urban landscape.
Still, the memories of the past are never far away. Hiroshi Harada, pictured in in front of the cenotaph , or memorial for those who died, in Peace Memorial Park , built near the epicenter of the bombing. Harada is a hibakusha , which is a term for survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, and a former head of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
Setsuko Thurlow, a hibakusha, gave a moving acceptance speech for the group in Oslo. After the interview, we strolled to a small Italian restaurant near the museum for lunch. After lunch we visited the memorials and monuments in the park. Visitors lined up before the Cenotaph for Atomic Bomb Victims, several bowing quietly before it. When the bomber dropped Little Boy , it drifted in the air and detonated slightly off-target.
Where, I asked Ms. Kondo, is the literal hypocenter? She led me to an empty, three-block-long street nearby and stopped in front of a low-rise medical building with graying tiles on its exterior. Next door was a 7-Eleven. Here, she said, and pointed to a small plaque in front of the medical building.
Most people in the area lost their lives instantly. I found myself irrationally looking straight up into the air, almost as if expecting to see something there too, some impossible remnant or marker. But all I saw was the blue sky above—as sun-filled as it had been on the morning of August 6, All rights reserved. The elusive horror of Hiroshima It's hard to fathom the nuclear holocaust that laid waste to this now vibrant city 75 years ago.
The U. The bridge, like the city surrounding it, has been rebuilt, and few physical scars remain from the devastating blast. Lesley M. Blume is a journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author. Hiroki Kobayashi is a Tokyo based photographer who concentrates on cultural issues and is a regular contributor to National Geographic.
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