Various Photos

				Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (now, Atomic Bomb Dome) This building was built in 1915.
	Atomic Bomb Dome after the bombing (in November 1945)
				The Dome was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
	Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims (in Peace Memorial Park) The Japanese characters carved on the front of the chamber say, "Let all the souls here rest in peace; for we shall not repeat the evil".
				View near First Hiroshima Prefectural Middle School (now, Kokutaiji High School) after the bombing I was exposed to the A-bomb around here.
	Scorched plain near Hiroshima University of Literature and Science I went along the back of this university through severe fire on August 6.
				Scorched plain around Takanobashi The Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital's building is on the left side of this photograph. At later years Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital was established next to this hospital.
	The police box at the west end of Miyuki Bridge Relief operation was done in front of this police box. I rested in this police box for a while on August 6. (photograph by Yoshito Matsushige)
				Monument to Tamiki Hara (Tamiki Hara is a so-called A-bomb poet.)
	A-bombed Phoenix Trees transplanted to the Peace Memorial Park
				Children's Peace Monument (Tower of Paper Cranes) This monument was inspired by Sadako Sasaki, a vivacious young girl suddenly struck down by radiation aftereffects. Sadako, two at the time of the bombing, developed leukemia about ten years later. Then she died in 1955.
	Statue of Mother and Child in the Storm

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