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2. Hiroshima - Wikipedia

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   The Hiroshima metropolitan area is the second largest urban area in the Chugoku Region of Japan, following the Okayama metropolitan area. Hiroshima was founded in 1589 as a castle town on the Ōta River delta. Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Hiroshima rapidly transformed into a major urban center and industrial hub. In 1889, Hiroshima ...

3. Hiroshima Peace Memorial - Wikipedia

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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.

4. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park - Wikipedia

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   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).

5. Here's what Hiroshima looks like today — and how the ... - AOL

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   Hiroshima today looks completely different than it did 73 years ago. On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima that destroyed most of the city and instantly killed 80,000 of ...

6. Here's what Hiroshima looks like today — and how the effects ...

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   On August 6, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, residents will pause to remember the day in 1945 that changed the course of history.

7. Hiroshima visit provides a timely history lesson | Along the Way

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   Their Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park warns us that we entered a more dangerous age with the dropping of an atomic bomb Aug. 6, 1945. David E. Dix is a retired Record-Courier publisher. David E. Dix

8. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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   [297] [better source needed] The memorials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki contain lists of the names of the hibakusha who are known to have died since the bombings. Updated annually on the anniversaries of the bombings, as of August 2024 [update] , the memorials record the names of more than 540,000 hibakusha ; 344,306 in Hiroshima [ 298 ] and ...

9. Hibakusha - Wikipedia

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   The word hibakusha is Japanese, originally written in kanji.While the term hibakusha 被爆者 (hi 被 ' affected ' + baku 爆 ' bomb ' + sha 者 ' person ') has been used before in Japanese to designate any victim of bombs, its worldwide democratization led to a definition concerning the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan by the United States Army Air Forces on 6 and 9 August 1945.