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	Hiroshima, Hiroshima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hiroshima (広島市 Hiroshima-shi) is the capital of Hiroshima prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Japan.
		Hiroshima was founded in 1589, on the coast of the Seto inland sea, and became a major urban center during the Meiji period.
		Hiroshima was greatly devastated by its atomic bombing on August 6, 1945.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/h/hi/hiroshima__hiroshima.html (635 words)

	Hiroshima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The city of Hiroshima (広島市; -shi) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, the largest of Japan's islands.
		Finally Asano was appointed the daimyo of this area and Hiroshima served as the capital of Hiroshima han during the Edo period.
		Hiroshima is known for its version of okonomiyaki, called "Hiroshima-yaki" or "Hiroshima pancake." The Hiroshima version of okonomiyaki is unique for its inclusion of yakisoba noodles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiroshima (1198 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hiroshima, Japan (Japanese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Founded c.1594 as a castle city on the Ota River delta, Hiroshima is divided by the river's seven mouths into six islands.
		Hiroshima was the target (Aug. 6, 1945) of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area; almost 130,000 people were killed, injured, or missing, and 90% of the city was leveled.
		Hiroshima, Kure, and Onomichi are among the important cities of Japan.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hiroshim.html (297 words)

	Historical Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hiroshima was the second city in Japan to have a higher education school, after Tokyo.
		Hiroshima became the assembling and dispatching point for army troops during each of Japan's wars overseas, and related facilities were added year after year.
		At that time, there were fluctuations in Hiroshima's population due to the presence of military personnel and evacuations, but it's believed that approximately 280,000~290,000 civilians lived in the city and approximately 40,000 military personnel were stationed there.
	www.hiroshima-is.ac.jp /Hiroshima/historic.htm (1571 words)

	HIROSHIMA
		Hiroshima is famous for what happened there in World War II with the Hiroshima Bombing, but today Hiroshima is a modern city.
		Hiroshima (広島) is an industrial city in the western Chugoku region of Japan.
		Hiroshima Castle is a reconstruction of a 16th-century castle originally built by the Mori clan.
	www.japaneselifestyle.com.au /travel/hiroshima.htm (275 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Finding peace in Hiroshima
		But to see a child's battered lunch box, the meal reduced to radioactive ash; school uniforms, scorched and shredded by the blast; photos of naked men and women, kimono patterns burned into their skin; the stories of a few of the 75,000 who died here: This is obscene.
		For hours, he struggled to reach downtown Hiroshima, picking his way past sparking electric wires and witnessing a parade of victims stagger from the city, their skin falling from their hands and faces.
		Among the blast's victims was Hiroshima Castle, first built in 1591, and nicknamed Carp Castle because of its location near the sea.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20040801-9999-lz1t1hiroshim.html (1413 words)

	Hiroshima memories \| thebulletin.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When the bombers flew over Hiroshima on their raids elsewhere, he would slip out of the shelter and go up to the roof of the house, where he would stare at them with binoculars.
		"Hiroshima Memories" was adapted from a longer unpublished work, "One Sunny Day," by Hideko Tamura Friedman, a therapist in private practice and part-time social worker in the Radiation Oncology Department at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
		She was a child in Hiroshima when the city was destroyed in 1945 by an atom bomb.
	www.bullatomsci.org /issues/1995/mj95/mj95.tamura.html (5123 words)

	Mario's Cyberspace Station: Remember Hiroshima
		U.S. textbooks today emphasize the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and the bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9 as the decisive action forcing the Japanese to surrender by Aug. 14.
		But Hasegawa said the bombing of Hiroshima didn't deliver a knockout punch, and the bombing of Nagasaki got surprisingly little notice at the highest levels of the Japanese government, which already was trying to find a way to end the war.
		On the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima, it is past time to organize to prevent the new crimes U.S. imperialism has in its plans.
	mprofaca.cro.net /hiroshima.html (2904 words)

	HIROSHIMA CALLING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In such a context, the role of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum as a means of education is of significant importance, and the Hiroshima authorities regard their city and the hibakusha experience as a beacon lighting the world toward peace.
		Hiroshima's past is ever present, with the result that all photos taken in Hiroshima become symbolic.
		The City of Hiroshima 1994 Peace Declaration states, "It is imperative that we continue to speak to young people everywhere of the horrors of war and Hiroshima's atomic bombing and hence of our dreams for the future".
	neo.pharm.hiroshima-u.ac.jp /hiroshima/back-no/paul/paul.html (2285 words)

	Hiroshima Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the horrendous ending to a horrific war.
		The 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima will be commemorated Saturday with solemn words, silent prayers and countless brightly colored paper cranes.
		The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 60 years ago were stunning and sobering events.
	archive.wn.com /2005/08/04/1400/hiroshimapost (652 words)

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		Hiroshima is a name known around the world as the Japanese city destroyed by the world's first atomic bomb.
		The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, designed and built after the war, was a memorial to the people who died in the atomic bomb.
		This was one of the few buildings that remained standing after the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima, although only the dome and some of the outer walls survived the blast.
	www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us /Classes/Social_Science/Japan_Visit/Peace_Park.html (755 words)

	CNN - Rare film documents devastation at Hiroshima - Aug. 10, 1996
		HIROSHIMA, Japan (CNN) -- Rare footage of the aftermath of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima has now been made available to the world -- three years after it was discovered by accident in a Tokyo film vault.
		Since then, historians at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which documents the destruction of the bomb, have been studying it frame by frame.
		Lest anyone doubt the destruction caused by the bomb dropped on Hiroshima 51 years ago, the film provides proof of one of the darkest days in world history.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9608/10/japan.hiroshima.film/index.html (413 words)

	Hiroshima-Nagasaki background
		In the months before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Truman and his senior staff did not believe that it was necessary to drop the bomb to end the war with Japan.
		Hiroshima made clear that scientists and engineers must take responsibility to ensure that instead research leads to well-being not death.
		After Hiroshima, responsibility means understanding that the comforting, conciliatory, and coopting idea that science and technology will inevitably lead to progress is a lie that cuts the sinews of our resistance to injustice.
	www.math.yorku.ca /sfp/sfp.ex.html (2246 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Hiroshima marks 60th anniversary of atomic bomb
		Hiroshima today marked the 60th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack.
		Hiroshima's outspoken mayor, Tadatoshi Akiba, gave an impassioned plea for the abolition of all nuclear weapons, and said the United States, Russia and other members of the nuclear club are "jeopardising human survival".
		Though Hiroshima has risen from the rubble to become a thriving city of 3 million, most of whom were born after the war, the anniversary underscores its ongoing tragedy.
	www.guardian.co.uk /japan/story/0,7369,1543848,00.html?gusrc=rss (537 words)

	Hiroshima HIRODEN streetcars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hiroshima is on the ocean in southern Honshu.
		The Hiroshima Electric Railway Co., or "Hiro-Den", runs 18.8 km of 7 conventional tram lines, and a 16.1 km modern LRT between Nishi-Hiroshima and the Hiroden-Miyajima terminus which uses low floor Seimens units.
		And finally, a 1.3 km "Skyrail" - a sort of monorail-gondola hybrid - was completed in 1999, and connects Midori-guchi at the Seno JR station, with the new Midorizaka development.
	www.subways.net /japan/hiroshima.htm (237 words)

	Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima: 1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Harry Truman said in regard to the atomic bomb, "it seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful..." The atomic bomb could very well be the most terrible thing ever invented.
		Once the decision was made, the decision of when and where the bomb was to be dropped shifted to General Carl Spaatz.
		A committee chose to drop the bomb on Hiroshima based on three main factors: Hiroshima was a very industrial city, had a military base, and had not yet been bombed, making it a good target to display the destructive power of the US's new super bomb.
	campus.northpark.edu /history/WebChron/World/Hiroshima.html (600 words)

	Photography Gallery "Hiroshima" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Hiroshima" is an on-going project by the Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida.
		Tsuchida's continued effort to persuade the museum, we obtained approval from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum for the use of his photographs of the museum's artifacts ("Hiroshima Collection") for this archive.
		We are proud to present his "Hiroshima" work in a complete set.
	www.lclark.edu /~history/HIROSHIMA/gallery.html (177 words)

	The Second World War & Hiroshima: Hiroshima - The School Studies Pack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hiroshima was a city with a military and naval presence.
		In 1945, after Tokyo had suffered severe conventional bombing and subsequent uncontrolled fires, the 12 and 13 year olds in Hiroshima schools were mobilised to help demolish buildings to create wider streets that would serve as firebreaks in the event of similar bombing on Hiroshima.
		In fact, before the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima the city had experienced relatively few bombing attacks compared with other Japanese cities.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /david.waller5/HIROSHIMA/hiroshima.htm (278 words)

	Hiroshima, Hiroshima - SmartyBrain Encyclopedia and Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This article is about the capital of Hiroshima prefecture, Hiroshima.
		Hiroshima (広島市; -shi) is the capital of Hiroshima prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Japan.
		The American atomic attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the major factor leading to the surrender of the Japanese Government several days later.
	smartybrain.com /index.php/Hiroshima (727 words)

	Hiroshima and Nagasaki
		In Hiroshima, of a resident civilian population of 250 000 it was estimated that 45 000 died on the first day and a further 19 000 during the subsequent four months.
		The major source of exposure in both cities was from the penetrating gamma radiations, and to a lesser extent from the neutrons (mostly at Hiroshima), emitted during and shortly after fission.
		On this basis of comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was of about 15 kilotonnes - that is, of 15 thousand tonnes of TNT equivalent - and that at Nagasaki was of 25 kilotonnes.
	www.uic.com.au /nip29.htm (1982 words)

	The Atomic Bombings of Japan: A 50-Year Retrospective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		That is, the target at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was principally the civilian population itself.
		Hiroshima and Nagasaki have shown us that there is, ostensibly, a point beyond which we will not allow ourselves to be pushed without exhausting all military resources available to us and that, no matter how costly the consequences, we are prepared to justify those actions accordingly.
		Hiroshima had been selected as one of these for several reasons (e.g., its size ["a large part of the city would be destroyed"] and its adjacent hills [to "focus" the blast effect]).
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/capio.html (4222 words)

	hiroshima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hiroshima was the first city ever targeted to be bombed by an atomic weapon, known as "Little Boy".
		In World War Two, as the war drew to an end, such a terrible ending could never have been understood by the people of the day as so few people understood the power of atomic energy.
		The battles at Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic seemed to pale into comparison with what took place in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /hiroshima.htm (1429 words)

	The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings Remembered
		The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a devastating psychological impact on the already weakened Japanese.
		The decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki—the first and last use of atomic weapons in combat—remains one of the most controversial in military history.
		Whether the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki constituted a needless tragedy or a prudent military decision will never be certain.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/hiroshima1.html (792 words)

	60 years later, memorial hushes somber Hiroshima - 08/07/05
		Women light candles in Hiroshima in front of the A-Bomb Dome, one of the few buildings left standing after the atomic bombing 60 years ago.
		HIROSHIMA, Japan -- Hiroshima marked the 60th anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack Saturday with prayers and water for the dead and a call by the mayor for nuclear powers to abandon their arsenals and stop "jeopardizing human survival."
		In a "Peace Declaration," Hiroshima's outspoken Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba vowed to never allow a repeat of the tragedy and gave an impassioned plea for the abolition of nuclear weapons, saying the United States, Russia and other members of the nuclear club are "jeopardizing human survival."
	www.detnews.com /2005/nation/0508/07/A04-271994.htm (753 words)

	Hiroshima on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An American in Hiroshima: visiting the spawning ground of the nuclear age.(Originated from The Orange County Register)
		Nuclear fallout; Hiroshima's Peace Park stands at the site where, 56 years ago, the first atomic bomb was dropped in wartime.
		Hiroshima, Nagasaki after atomic blasts: story the Smithsonian was not allowed to tell.(excerpts from 'Judgment at the Smithsonian')(Cover Story)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Hiroshim.asp (779 words)

	Hiroshima Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Inspired by the photographic work "Hiroshima" by Japanese artist Hiromi Tsuchida, The Hiroshima Archive was originally set up to join the on-line effort made by many people all over the world to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing.
		The archive is intended to serve as a research and educational guide to those who want to gain and expand their knowledge of the atomic bombing.
		Hiroshima Directory offers Internet resources as well as a selected bibliography of printed books, articles, and other research materials regarding the bombing of Hiroshima.
	www.lclark.edu /~history/HIROSHIMA (259 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Hiroshima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since listening to Hiroshima in concert 17 years ago in Orlando,Florida, I have very much enjoyed their fusion of jazz sounds and japanese instruments.
		I discovered Hiroshima with the purchase of this debut album when it was first released.
		Of all Hiroshima's albums/cds (and I have them all), this still stands as their best work, due to the absolutely phenomenal "Da-Da." It is the finest meld of eastern instrumentation, jazz and electric rock ever achieved, with simple, but very moving lyrics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002VC9?v=glance (815 words)

	Hiroshima Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It includes the program of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony, the Mayor's Peace Declaration, information and photographs on the damage caused by the atomic bomb, history of Hiroshima and its "New Century Vision" for the future.
		Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) - The Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Hiroshima was formerly known as the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC).
		HIROSHIMA Interpreters for Peace (HIP) - Hiroshima Interpreters for Peace, a group of volunteer interpreters and guides, publishes the HIROSHIMA HANDBOOK, a guide for visitors.
	www.dannen.com /hiroshima_links.html (283 words)

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