Children's Memorial

Dedicated to children who died from the A-Bomb, it was inspired by the death of the girl Sadako (you may remember her if you read the book A Thousand Paper Cranes). The colorful cases around her are filled with paper cranes, some formed into elaborate pictures.

City of Pain

January 12th 2008
was so thirsty he tried to drink the pus from his nailless fingers. (Actual paraphrasing from an A-Bombing victim's story in the Peace Memorial Museum) Hiroshima is a relatively small Japanese city known primarily for one thing: being the site of the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare. I left Kyoto very early today under heavy rain, and arrived in Hiroshima around 9:30 in the ... 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

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