A woman, probably a survivor (hibakusha), prays for peace. From a news report on the 62th anniversary of the atomic bomb.
Let Nagasaki be the last city to be a-bombed. Don't let any city be a military target: we already have too many targeted cities in wars -- Guernica, Dresden, Nanking, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fallujah, Qana...
-- TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 9th August 2007.
Paper cranes at the Peace Memorial Park, Nagasaki. From a news report on the 62th anniversary of the atomic bomb.
-- TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 9th August 2007.
The Peace Declaration by Mr Tomihisa Taue (田上富久), the mayor of Nagasaki City. From a news report on the 62th anniversary of the atomic bomb.
Mr Tagami was elected mayor of the city in April this year after the former mayor, Mr Iccho Ito was shot dead on 17th April.
Very recently, one of the cabinet ministers - the Defence Minister at the time - was forced to resign after he made a gaffe about the atomic bomb. (He said the atomic bombs were not to be helped to end the war, "あれで戦争が終わったのだからしかたがない" in Japanese.) The disgraced minister, Mr Fumio Kyuma, is from Nagasaki, and he stirred up anger among the Japanese people, especially the voters and citizens in Nagasaki.
Today the mayor began his speech by mentioning the late Mr Ito's efforts in trying to ban the nuclear weapons. He urged the international society should do more to revive the NPT and warned about the nuclear crisis we are facing now. He pointed out that Japan is the only country that has this experience, and that it should take an active and leading part on the basis of the article 9 of the constitution. Then he went on describing our "reality".
From the English translation of the Peace Declaration:
www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/abm/abm_e/heiwasengen/seng...
"Today, in the midst of erroneous interpretation of the atomic bombings (as expressed by Mr Kyuma) and discussion of potential nuclear weapons possession even in Japan, it is necessary to enact the Three Non-Nuclear Principles into law, not merely stating them as national policy."
The Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Shinzo Abe, was also present at the ceremony to make a speech, but I found nothing new other than what he said on the 6th in Hiroshima: he is the one who was mainly responsible for the "discussion of potential nuclear weapons possession even in Japan" before he became the PM. Now as a PM, he should answer the Nagasaki mayor's strong request "to enact the Three Non-Nuclear Principles into law." But I don't know what will happen.
-- TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 9th August 2007.
A seaside village in Nagasaki prefecture. From a news report on the 62th anniversary of the atomic bomb.
See notes for the translation of subtitles.
en.wikipedia.org has a good entry about the bombing:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Na...
-- TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 9th August 2007.
Four pictures from a news report on the 62th anniversary of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. See notes for subtitle (rough) translation.
The Statue for Peace in Nagasaki, which stands at the Ground Zero, is a work by 北村西望 (Kitamura Seibo: 1884 - 1987), a famed sculpter from Nagasaki. He began working on this statue in 1950, five years after the bombing, and completed in 1955. It is a combination of the God's love and Buddha's mercy, with the right hand pointing to the sky to give warnings, and the left hand stretching horisontally for peace.
Nagasaki area has a lot of Christians because that was where the Portuguese Jesuit missionaries arrived in the 16th century. Before long, the government banned all the missionary activities in Japan, but people in Nagasaki kept their faith, despite all the severe religious oppression against them. They have many Catholic churchesin Nagasaki, and the cathedral called Urakami Tenshu-do ("tenshu" means "the lord").
The cathedral was very badly damaged by the bomb on 9th August 1945. Wikipedia in English has an entry for the cathedral.
-- TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 9th August 2007.
en.wikipedia.org has a good entry about the bombing:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Na...
Four pictures from a news report on the 62th anniversary of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
See notes for the translation of subtitles.
-- TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 9th August 2007.
en.wikipedia.org has a good entry about the bombing:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Na...
The Dome at night.
-- TV screen, The TBS's News23, 6th August 2007.
Voices of American people. See notes by clicking on the picture.
-- TV screen, The TBS's News23, 6th August 2007.
The programme shows History textbooks used in American high schools.
See notes for details. I'm not going to express my opinions here. The notes are just translations of the captions and what the reporter pointed out.
-- TV screen, The TBS's News23, 6th August 2007.
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Click on the picture and read comments.
Right after the Oppenheimer's quote, the news programme went onto Tonight's Special -- How the A-bomb is taught in the USA and how it is changing.
See notes for details.
-- TV screen, The TBS's News23, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
「我は死神なり。世界の破壊者なり」 -- Robert Oppenheimer's quote. "I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds."
-- TV screen, The TBS's News23, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that one way or another.'
-- Oppenheimer on an NBC television documentary broadcast in in 1965
Enola Gay at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, near Dulles International Airport, USA. It has killed 253,008 people (possibly more because there are "not-official" A-bomb survivors who are not counted in), and the report points out that there is no mention to the death toll in the museum.
-- TV screen, The TBS's News23, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
I'm just messing around with my software.
-- basically TV screen, 6th August 2007. (TV-Asahi's Hodo Station, I think.)
I'm just messing around with my software.
-- basically TV screen, 6th August 2007. (TV-Asahi's Hodo Station, I think.)
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
Speech by the Governer of Hiroshima. The caption is: "There is no justification whatsoever for the use of nuclear weapons."
-- TV screen, 6th August 2007. (TV-Asahi's Hodo Station.)
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
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Created with fd's Flickr Toys for my blog.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
[UPDATE]
I posted this mosaic over at the nocommentnews.com/view.php?id=1523, with a caption below:
On the bright and beautiful morning of 6th August 1945, 62 years ago, the city of Hiroshima was visited by Enola Gay and the Little Boy. The first-ever atomic bomb has since killed 253,008 people.
The survivors, who are getting old and many of whom have suffered cancer and other radiation-caused illnesses, tell their stories to younger generations. This should never happen again anywhere on the earth.
A lady aged around 80 at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, 6th August 2007.
-- the TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
A young Japanese boy at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, 6th August 2007.
-- the TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
A young Japanese girl who visited the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
The caption is a comment by one of the school girls in the previous post. She says "I hope we can tell the survivors' stories, that's what we must do for the future generations."
-- the TV screen, the NHK's 9 O'Clock News, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
These high school girls are taking part in a school project and making a documentary film about the Atomic Bomb with destroyed their city 62 years ago.
Here, they are listening to a A-bomb survivor (hibakusha), who seems to be over 70. The hibakusha says, as in the caption, that she doesn't want them and others to suffer like she did in 1945.
-- the TV screen, the NHK's 9 O'Clock News, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
The Prime Minister's speech at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Ceremony on the morning of 6th August, 2007.
The caption roughly translates: "We (the government) promise to do everything we can do to abolish the nuclear weapons and to establish the eternal peace." I hope he is honestly and sincerely saying this.
-- the TV screen, the NHK's 9 O'Clock News, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
The Hiroshima city mayor, Tadatoshi Akiba, reads out the Peace Declaration.
Here's the Declaration in English:
www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/2007/peace_declaration/En_Hiros...
In Japanese, if you prefer:
www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/2007/peace_declaration/Hiroshim...
The Hiroshima city mayor, Tadatoshi Akiba, reads out the Peace Declaration.
Here's the Declaration in English:
www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/2007/peace_declaration/En_Hiros...
In Japanese, if you prefer:
www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/2007/peace_declaration/Hiroshim...
On the caption in this picture: Let us pledge here and now to take all actions required to bequeath to future generations a nuclear-weapon-free world.
-- the TV screen, the NHK's 9 O'Clock News, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
The Hiroshima city mayor, Tadatoshi Akiba, reads out the Peace Declaration.
Here's the Declaration in English:
www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/2007/peace_declaration/En_Hiros...
In Japanese, if you prefer:
www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/2007/peace_declaration/Hiroshim...
On the caption in this picture: ... while clearly saying "No," to obsolete and mistaken US policies. As far as I can remember, this part of the Declaration was not broadcast in the later news programs, such as the NHK's Nine O'Clock News or TV-Asahi's Hodo Station.
-- the TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
The river in which thousands people jumped into hoping to get some water and escape from the heat. The citizens float thousands of lanturns after the sunset.
With a caption, "被爆から62年 広島 原爆の日" (translated: "62 years since the bomb - Hiroshima A-bomb day")
-- the TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
The famous "Dome" roof structure with a caption, "被爆から62年 広島 原爆の日" (translated: "62 years since the bomb - Hiroshima A-bomb day")
-- the TV screen, the NHK's 7 O'Clock News, 6th August 2007.
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BBC's report on the YouTube BBC World channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=j5k3keyGbn8
I pictured these as they were found. And I know nothing about this caffeine-addicted person.
