Travel Photo Thursday is this picture taken 10 years ago this week.
With Japan facing nuclear disaster at Fukushima after a devastating earthquake and a tsunami, we are reminded of visiting Japan so long ago. Here is a photo of our pilgrimage to Hiroshima Peace Memorial, a reminder of Japan's other worst disasters- World War 2 and the atomic and hydrogen bombs dropped by the Americans to end that conflict.
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| Hiroshima Peace Memorial UNESCO Heritage Site. |
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial is located just across the river from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park where there is a museum That provides a graphic portrayal of the destruction and death wrought by the bomb on Hiroshima, but in contrast outside in the park is peace and beauty...and crowds of visitors. We struck many groups of schoolchildren that brilliant Spring day. We had missed the best of the cherry blossoms but were able to admire many late flowering varieties. Our trip to Japan was to attend our nephews marriage to a Japanese girl he had met in Auckland, New Zealand. We don't have a lot of photographs of the trip as in those days of early digital photography, memory sticks had tiny capacity, 8- 64 megabytes and were hellishly expensive.
But here are a couple of standout photos of Andrew and Emi. They have 3 children now, and are currently visiting her family in Kobe, Japan.
Inle Lake is one of her favorite places in Myanmar. Take a look!
Travel Photo Thursday April 21.
8 comments:
Great photos, Jim. It's definitely all eyes on Japan at the moment for not good reasons, unfortunately.
wow a trip to this memorial ll be a nice one
Enjoyed this picture. Would love to visit Hiroshima one day.
Very nice photos, Jim. :)
I didn't know about this site that portrays the destruction of war, but that is wonderfully named for peace. I like the photos of Andrew and Emi, too -- very nice.
Just had a friend and her mom over for dinner - and the mom is Japanese from Hiroshima. She lived in Canada during the war & was going to be sent back to Japan where much of her family was - but who knows if she'd be alive today. She still ended up in a Japanese prisoner camp in Canada - a part of our history none of us is proud of. Your pictures are timely reminders of the horror of war. But I always love the hope & happiness of the wedding.
Leigh, that was the contrast I was hoping readers would pick up on.... The stark reminder of conflict between our countries and Japan, and of how later generations have got over that.
Can't help but remember the days when digital photography is so expensive.
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