Tokyo encounters (3)

.....with the past




The Memorial Park, Hiroshima. The park was built in commemoration of the
first nuclear bomb ever used, dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 by the USA in the final days of World War II.

Hiroshima being rebuilt. The pictures show the city in various stages over the decades.

Nowadays, the city makes a pleasant, peaceful, modern and, most of all, friendly and welcoming impression.

This monument shrine features a flame (left of the centre) that burns since it was erected, and will only be extinguished when all nuclear arms will have disappeared from Earth.

I'm afraid this might take a while.....