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TRAVEL

TRAVEL

Travelling to Japan may not be really complete without a visit to one of the world ’ s most talked about cities that featured dramatically in World War II . ALFREDO ‘ DING ’ ROCES takes us to Hiroshima .

It ' s a city that actually rose from the ashes

Hiroshima after the atomic bomb dopped , showing the ruins of the Dome in the centre .
THE Atomic Bomb ( Genbaku ) Dome is Hiroshima ' s dramatic landmark . One cannot think of Hiroshima without associating it with the atom bomb . On August 6 , 1945 , the US Boeing B-29 " Enola Gay " had dropped a single bomb named " Little Boy " blasting 90 percent of the entire city of Hiroshima in one flash and wiping out about 80,000 persons representing 30 per cent of its inhabitants . Thirty minutes later , a toxic " black rain " carrying deadly radioactive isotopes followed killing 130,000 within months . The Children ' s Peace Monument was built in honor of children who were victims of the bomb and survived , only to perish later from the radiation effects of " Little Boy ". It is in homage of Sadao Sasaki , a twoyear-old girl when the bomb was dropped , who subsequently died from leukemia ten years later . Throughout her long illness Sadao would fold paper cranes in the belief that were she to complete a thousand , she would be healed . She never made it . Her schoolmates completed the thousand . She is portrayed at the top of the monument holding a large wire crane .
The Atomic Bomb Dome ( Genbaku ) as it stands today .
A scale model of the atomic bomb that dropped on the city of Hirosnhima .
The names of all who perished are inscribed in the stone vault in the Cenotaph For Atomic Victims , also known as the
Memorial for Hirsohima , City of Peace .
Scale models of the former Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall before the bomb at right , and the ruins at left .
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