A Bomb dome

Hiroshima and Miyajima

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March 28th 2007
Just completed a great day - possibly one of the best so far - seeing Hiroshima Peace Park and then on the ferry over to Miyajima The Peace Park has a lot of memorials to various groups who lost their lives in the atom bomb dropped 6th August 1945. There are 2 main memorials, the cenotaph and the childens memorial. The childrens one has tens of thousands of paper cranes (birds) that the childr ... read more

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more