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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (広島平和記念碑, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinenhi), originally the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, and now commonly called the Genbaku Dome, Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome (原爆ドーム, Genbaku Dōmu), is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Kōen) is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan.It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack at the end of World War II, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims (of whom there may have been as many as 140,000).
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum showing axis with cenotaph and A-bomb dome (1949) Peace Watch Reconstruction of physical damages on people and buildings after the explosion of the American atomic bomb in Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (1973-2017) [ 5 ]
[33] [34] Hiroshima narrates the stories of six bomb survivors immediately before and four months after the dropping of the Little Boy bomb. [31] [35] Oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima because it was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945. [36] Gallery
A-Bomb memorial car 651 and 652 at Genbaku Dome-mae in 2006 A-Bomb Memorial Day Right after the tram left the station to "Honkawa-cho", the tram across "Aioi bridge", and "Atomic Bomb Dome" can be seen on the left (south) Genbaku Dome-mae (Atomic Bomb Dome) is a Hiroden tram stop on the Hiroden Main Line, located in front of the Hiroshima Peace ...
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) Hiroshima: 1996 775; vi (cultural) The Peace Memorial centres around the ruins of the only building left standing after the detonation of the first atomic bomb over of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Originally constructed in 1914, it was the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall.
A promise from Mayor Ray Nagin to furnish FEMA supplies was never fulfilled, USA Today reported, and the city's police department pulled its contingent from the Dome the day after Katrina hit ...
The Genbaku Dome amidst the devastation in October 1945. Photograph by Shigeo Hayashi, one of two photographers attached to the academic survey teams. [1] Shigeo Hayashi (林 重男, Hayashi Shigeo, 1918–2002) was a Japanese photographer. [2]