Within the spacious grounds of the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park is the Children Peace Monument dedicated to all those innocent kids who died in the A-bomb blast.
Perched atop a statue resembling an A-bomb, a little girl holds aloft a crane. A Japanese girl suffering from radiation believed that if she folded 1000 paper cranes she would be cured but alas she died before she could complete her project.
Paper cranes (last two pictures) therefore came to symbolise peace. Children all over the world have sent paper cranes to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (the paper cranes are kept in display
cases as shown in the first picture)
It's exceedingly sad to see that so many kids died in the A-bomb explosion.
oh.. i miss hiroshima!!!! i had been staying there for 2years... i miss okonomiyaki :)
ReplyDeleteWow! Two years? What are your pleasant memories? Yes I tried the okonomoyaki. V nice.
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