thetemperamentalgoat:

Japanese War patient (1904-1905)

all—things—asian:

Monument from Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park

denyinghipster:

(via The Hiroshima Files - Slide Show - NYTimes.com)

A library in Hiroshima, after the bomb was dropped. That staircase is steel.

One has to wonder why not much attention in American Education and memory focuses on the tragedies of our past. We have already accepted them and move on I feel like [is the attitude of the many], or we would rather just not think about them. And there isn’t much there to force us to think about it either.

In Berlin, outside every house where they know someone was taken and deported and sent to the camps, there lies a little gold square in the ground, among the cobblestones. A constant reminder of the horrors of the past.

There isn’t much like that in America.

francoisecerise:

“HIROSHIMA” by Hiromi Tsuchida

(via francoisecerise-deactivated2012)

Hiroshima 6th of August 1945. 70,000 people were killed right away, often simply evaporating in the intense heat of the blast, leaving only eerie shadows on the walls behind them. Others were less lucky and died from severe burns or radiation poisoning soon thereafter. The total toll today, including those to have succumbed to radiation-induced cancers and similar diseases stands at somewhere between 90,000 and 200,000.

thedailywhat:

This x That:

Know This:

• 2011 Sendai Earthquake: Explosion at Fukushima Daichi’s No. 2 reactor damages suppression pool, several employees temporarily evacuated; Kyodo: ROadiation tops legal limit following blast; nuclear energy scrutinized in wake of Japanese crisis; USGS upgrades earthquake magnitude to 9.0; Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara: Tsunami was divine punishment for selfish greed; The Big Picture: Japan - Vast Devastation; Above: Nagasaki bombing aftermath (bottom) vs. 2011 Sendai Earthquake (top). [via.]

(Source: thedailywhat, via guttur)