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The bombing of Osaka (大阪大空襲, Ōsaka daikūshū) during the Pacific War was part of the strategic bombing air raids on Japan campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers in Japan. It first took place from the middle of the night on March 13, 1945, to the early morning of the next day.
On 6 August 1945, an American plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. [1] Survivors of the bombing called themselves hibakusha. Numerous people experienced deep flash burns from heat rays, as well as hair loss and purpura from the radiation. [2] Many of the flash burns developed into keloid scars. [3]
Sasaki was at home, about 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) away from ground zero, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.She was blown out of the window and her mother ran out to find her, suspecting she might be dead, but instead finding her two-year-old daughter alive with no apparent injuries.
The Atomic Bomb Survivors Relief Law defines hibakusha as people who fall into one or more of the following categories: within a few kilometers of the hypocenters of the bombs; within 2 km (1.2 mi) of the hypocenters within two weeks of the bombings; exposed to radiation from fallout; or not yet born but carried by pregnant women in any of the three previously mentioned categories. [4]
The building was severely damaged in the bombing of August 6, 1945. [17] Although most of the building's interior was destroyed, the coin room, cash, and passbooks were undamaged. [17] Papers from inside the building were blown as far away as Numata-cho by the blast. [b] [17] On the morning of the bombing, the bank was to be open as usual.
The museum was established in 1991 and was rare in Japan for showing the atrocities committed by Japan as well as the tragedies suffered by Japanese people. [4] In 2000 it hosted a symposium by the Osaka-based historical revisionist group "Society to Correct the Biased Display of War-Related Materials" with Shūdō Higashinakano of Asia University as the keynote speaker.
About 8.5 million Japanese civilians were displaced from their homes between 1943 and 1945 as a result of air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during the Pacific War. These evacuations started in December 1943 as a voluntary government program to prepare the country's main cities for bombing raids by evacuating ...
Prior to the bombing her family immigrated to Japan from Korea to escape starvation. Etsuko Nagano, 16 years old. Nagano lost her brother and sister to the bombing. Senji Yamaguchi, 14 years old. During his lengthy hospitalization Yamaguchi started a survivors' group to petition the Japanese government to provide medical care to victims of the ...