Among the citizens who perished in Hiroshima, were a lot of Koreans. More than one in ten who died were Koreans and no memorials were ever erected for Koreans for a long time until recently. We found this deserted looking small Korean memorial adjacent to the park and paid tribute. Unfortunately, it had no Korean or English descriptions.
The ruin (A-Bomb Memorial) is now a World Heritage Site. It stands as a reminder of the tragedy.
The only surviving ruin after the atomic bomb struck Hiroshima.
One of Hiroshima's local cuisines is okonomiyaki. We found the one that was recommended in the book and it came with a very outgoing owner. Okonomiyaki is a mixture of bean sprouts, noodles, eggs and oysters fried in front of you. It was delicious.
A Japanese couple tying a paper with their wishes in the park; we also saw many of these papers tied to tree limbs inside the temple.
2 comments:
i had no idea 10% of the population that died were korean.. all that destruction is pretty sad in any case.
Gene, all of the Koreans were slaves that were forced to be in Japan after the Japanese occupation. Japan put up a memorial with all of the names of Japanese people that had died from the bomb but not a single Korean name was put up. That's why the Korean memorial was erected very belatedly by Koreans; it's not even in the same area as the main memorial and also very hard to find.
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