Hiroshima Japan

JAPAN

SOME SCENES FROM AROUND JAPAN.

Heated seat, spray-back front, low-high in our hotel in Tokyo.

6C floating torii gate. Gates are free-standing and mark the entrance to a shrine.

Owners of a small restaurant in Kyoto, a lovely couple.




Heaven! A bowl of Wendy's chili and a
Frosty.










Our hotel in Hiroshima, one block from train station.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

140,000 people killed by the initial A-Bomb blast. The bomb detonated 1900 feet above the Shima Surgical Clinic. There was total destruction within a one-mile radius. 90% of Hiroshima buildings were damaged or completely destroyed. The A-Bomb Dome was the only building left standing.

People evaporated within the one-mile radius; further away people were burned in the pattern of their clothing. The darker the fabric, the more serious were the burns.

The target was the Aioi Bridge, 800 feet from the actual site, the Shima Surgical Clinic. The building between the bridge and clinic was an Industrial Promotion Hall. It is now called the A-Bomb Dome.

The bomb was a 9,700 pound uranium bomb. Bells ring every day at 8:15am.

Children’s Peace Monument dedicated to the child victims of the A-Bomb. The base is filled with thousands of origami cranes that are being sent from all over the world. The monument is reaching to God for the souls of children and is covered with doves of peace.

Peace Bell-visitors are encouraged to ring the bell for world peace.

Japan controlled Korea. Jobless Koreans were forced through conscription to go to Japan to work. Turtle monument dedicated to the 45,000 Koreans who died in Hiroshima. The inscription reads, “Souls of the dead ride to heaven on the backs of turtles.”

Because of the labor shortage during WWII, the Japanese government enacted the Student Labor Service Act in 1944. The act covered middle school and older children to work in the munitions factories. Of the 8,400 students, 6,300 died on August 6 1945. This is a memorial tower to their memory.

Burial mound of the ashes of 70,000 unidentified victims who died on August 6. Many bodies evaporated and left a dark image on the cement where people had stood.

Plaque:

This monument was created in the hope that Hiroshima, devastated by the world’s first atomic bomb on 6 August 1945, would be rebuilt as a city of peace.

Epitaph:
Let all the souls here rest in peace that we shall not repeat the evil.

It summons people everywhere to pray for the repose of the souls of the deceased A-Bomb victims and to join in the pledge never to repeat the evil of war.

It thus expresses the heart of Hiroshima which during the past had great and overcoming hatred. Here’s to the realization of true world peace and the coexistence and prosperity of all human kind.

This monument is also called “A Bomb Cenotaph”. The stone chest or cenotaph in the center contains the register of the deceased A-Bomb victims. Engraved is “Repose ye in Peace, for the error shall not be repeated.”

This is an UNESCO World Heritage Site.