Hiroshima

It was a movie titled “Thousands of Paper Cranes” (not sure) that I was connected to Hiroshima for the first time. The movie I watched at the primary school described a true story of a girl who had died by leukemia. She had been folding paper cranes, hoping she would be cured if she could make thousand. Second is a fiction titled “Black Rain,” but not the movie by Michael Douglas and Ken Takakura. The book a junior high school teacher recommended described a social discrimination against a young lady soaked by rain after the atomic bombing. Third is an essay “Hiroshima Notes” by Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel Prize-winning author. This made me think what I can do. I took my children to Hiroshima. I think the Japanese more or less have such experiences through their life. Hiroshima is a place to visit once at least.

(Hiroshima Peace Memorial)

(People Visiting Hiroshima Peace Memorial)

(Prayer for Peace)
Thousands of Origami cranes sent from all over the world are displayed in the Park.