#hiroshima (japan)

[sayruq]

Close to four months since the conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas began on Oct. 7, 2023, participants in the demonstration in Hiroshima's Naka Ward called to "free Palestine." More than 50 people, including members of a citizens' group that stands daily in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome demanding an end to bloodshed and attacks, walked down Hondori street shouting "Stop the massacre" and "Ceasefire now" among other slogans. They then held a rally in front of the A-bomb Dome.

A farmer in his 30s from the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Shobara commented, "No matter how hard a day I have (here in Japan), it would probably seem like paradise to the people of Gaza. We must take action beyond calling for a cease-fire, to bring the occupation to an end." A woman from Algeria, which was under French colonial rule for 132 years from 1830, said she came to the event because she felt that Palestine was suffering the same fate as her country. Participants also voiced anger and questions about the Japanese government's decision to suspend funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the Hiroshima City Council's lack of resolutions regarding a cease-fire and other issues.

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #japan #hiroshima #gaza genocide #genocide

[biladal-sham]

#palestine #hiroshima #japan #gaza #israel

[zegalba]

Ishiuchi Miyako: 'Hiroshima' (2007)

Since 2007 Miyako has been photographing abandoned Japanese garments from victims of the 1945 Hiroshima bombing.

#Ishiuchi Miyako #hiroshima #hiroshima bombing #clothing #abandoned #destroyed #japan #photography #art #2007

[thefringeexplorer]

#hiroshima #hiroshima japan #atomic bomb dome #japan #visit japan #cherry blossom

[psikonauti]

Georg Gerster (Swiss,1928-2019)

Floating storage of timber, Hiroshima Bay, Japan, 1992

#upl #art #photography #Georg Gerster #Hiroshima Bay #Japan

[inefekt69]

Miyajima, Japan

#Miyajima #Hiroshima #Japan #island #torii #deer #nikon #d5500 #宮島 #広島 #日本

[389]

Tomonotsu Museum, Hiroshima

#art #photography #rocks #japan #hiroshima #tomonotsu museum #u #z

[aka-nyontaros]

#aesthetic #photography #beauty #japan #nature #dramatic #romantic #japanese #life #nopeople #Hiroshima #広島 #広電 #路面電車 #日本 #日本の暮らし #生活 #日本の生活 #アジア

[tomochika0122]

今年の桜1

#cherry blossom #hiroshima #japan

[takeuchiitsuka]

#9034 Copyright © Takeuchi Itsuka. All Rights Reserved.

#film #filmphotograph #filmphotography #photography #photograph #フィルム #フィルム写真 #streetphotography #streetphotographyjapan #photographer on tumblr #magazine35mm #35mm #hiroshima #japan #cityscape #cityphotography #alley #backstreet #fujifilm #pro400h

[cctvarchive]

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.

#hiroshima #japan #industrial #purple #green #insecam #security camera #oldweb #liminal

[humanoidhistory]

"First picture of results of atomic bomb." From the front page for the Gainesville Daily Register, Texas, August 13, 1945.

#hiroshima #nagasaki #history #japan #atom bomb #atomic #nuclear #military history #war #wwii #ww2 #world war ii #second world war #world war 2

[captain-price-unofficially]

One of the earliest known images of Hiroshima after the detonation of the bomb, with the ensuing firestorm captured in this photo, August 6th, 1945

#bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki #wwii #pacific theater #august #strategic bombing campaign over Japan

[redsamuraiii]

Fun Trivia : Did you know that Osaka Castle was black?

It was built by the real Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, before it was destroyed and reconstructed into a white castle by Tokugawa Ieyasu. After the death of the "dictator" Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi constructed impressive castles like Osaka to herald his new position.

Castles that were built during Hideyoshi's reign like Hiroshima, Okayama and Matsumoto are black. Castles built during Tokugawa's reign like Hikone, Himeji and Nagoya are white. So when you see a castle on your next trip to Japan, you can guess who built it. 😉

The differences in color is due to the resources availability at the time, as white plastering were more expensive than black lacquered timber, so it is of no surprise that Tokugawa later used white for his castles as a symbol of wealth and power. 

You can read more from the book, Samurai Castles by Jennifer Mitchelhill which share the history of Japanese castles, from its designs, architectures, layouts, significance and legends, coupled with wonderful photos of the castles by David Green.

#osaka castle #japan #samurai castle #japanese castle #shogun #shogun fx #shogun 2024 #toyotomi hideyoshi #tokugawa ieyasu #oda nobunaga #sengoku jidai #japanese culture #hiroshima castle #okayama castle #matsumoto castle #hikone castle #himeji castle #nagoya castle

[sakebytheriver]

I don't really know what to say about Oppenheimer and Christopher Nolan's newest glorification of white violence, I truly don't have a strong opinion either way nor do I have much to say on the film other than I hope the movie itself is less about glorifying Oppenheimer as some American folk hero and more about the massacre and devestation caused by the bombs

And on a personal note, the Japanese side of my family literally came from a suburb of Hiroshima. Of course, my great grandfather left Hiroshima with his brother long before WWII started and he settled in Hawai'i while his brother settled in Salinas Valley CA, when the war broke out the Salinas Valley branch of our family was all sent to the internment camps and two of my great uncles who left Hawai'i for the mainland were also interned along with their spouses and children, the only reason my grandmother and her family weren't interned is because there were just too many Japanese in Hawai'i to intern them, they were 60% of the population, interning Hawaiian Japanese would have meant capsizing Hawai'i's economy, (it didn't stop them from making a few internment camps for influential Japanese community leaders in Hawai'i though). Before the bombs were dropped, a distant relative of mine, a second cousin twice removed or something like that, went back to Japan, they went back to Hiroshima, back to where my family first came from. They went home to family

And then the bombs dropped.

And for months upon months, my family thought they were dead. They were finally able to contact our family and say they were still alive. They got lucky and didn't die in the bombing, but their story is an outlier, and my family got really really lucky in that regard. Of course, I have no idea about the family we still had in Hiroshima before my great grandfather left, but there's no doubt in my mind that I lost family when those bombs dropped, there's no doubt in my mind that a piece of my family history was destroyed, there is not doubt in my mind that there is forever an indelible mark on my family for the rest of time all because the US wanted to test out their fancy new toy that they made their pet scientist Oppenheimer build

I don't care about Oppenheimer, I care about the family I will never get to know

#ignore me #personal #Oppenheimer #japan #wwii #tw #atomic bomb #hiroshima #nagasaki

[lesbianforzendaya]

#free palestine #free gaza #palestine #gaza #gaza genocide #israel #japan #hiroshima #usa #oppenheimer #save palestine #save gaza